Fantasy is an Escape from Fear in Edith Wharton's Ethan Frome
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Fantasy is an Escape from Fear in Edith Wharton's Ethan Frome Everyone, at some time in life, will experience fear. But, often fantasies are created in one's mind to escape that fear. Ethan Frome uses his fantasy as an escape to the entrapment of his marriage and the fear of public condemnation. Ethan Frome lives in the winter town of Starkfield, Massachusetts where "the storms of February…pitched their white tents about the devoted village and the wild cavalry of March winds…charged down to their support; and …Starkfield emerged from its six months' siege like a starved garrison capitulating without quarter" (Wharton, 5). The narrator, upon meeting Ethan Frome for the first time, thought "he seemed a part of the mute melancholy landscape, an incarnation of its frozen woe, with all that was warm and sentient in him fast bound below the surface." He "had the sense that his loneliness was not merely the result of his personal plight, but had in it…the profound accumulated cold of many Starkfield winters" (Wharton, 9). Frome finds he is unable to escape the dreariness of the town of Starkfield. Each day while passing the headstones on his property he feels as if they are mocking him, claiming: "We never got away—how should you? Whenever he went in or out of his gate he thought with a shiver 'I shall just go on living here till I join them.' " (Wharton, 36). Ethan Frome marries Zenobia (Zeena) after the death of his mother in "an unsuccessful attempt to escape the silence, isolation and loneliness of life" (Lawson, 71). But, after time, he finds his life again becoming silent, as it was with his mother. Their lack of communication is continually making the marriage more misera... ... middle of paper ... ...and an escape to his fears and reality, through his fantasies, now brought him more suffering. The former invalid, Zeena, was now forced to care for them both. Perhaps Edith Wharton's reason for writing Ethan Frome, was that it so vividly reflected her own dreary life. Abandoned of any love as a child from her mother and trapped in a marriage similar to that of Zeena and Ethan, Wharton found herself relying on illicit love. This illicit love was also her favorite topic of writing, which helped her to escape her own tragedies. She spent many nights in the arms of other men searching desperately for the love she believed existed, but had never felt, which is evident in all of her writings. Ethan Frome is not only an excellent piece of writing, and moving story, but also causes a reflection that we, too, create vivid fantasies and hopes to escape our fears.
In this essay, the author
- Analyzes how edith wharton's ethan frome uses his fantasy as an escape to the entrapment of his marriage and the fear of public condemnation.
- Analyzes how the narrator, upon meeting ethan frome for the first time, thought that his loneliness was not just the result of his personal plight, but had in it the profound accumulated cold of many starkfield winters.
- Analyzes how frome is unable to escape the dreariness of the town of starkfield. each day while passing the headstones on his property he feels as if they are mocking him.
- Analyzes how edith wharton's ethan frome uses his fantasy as an escape to the entrapment of his marriage and the fear of public condemnation.
- Analyzes how the narrator, upon meeting ethan frome for the first time, thought that his loneliness was not just the result of his personal plight, but had in it the profound accumulated cold of many starkfield winters.
- Analyzes how frome is unable to escape the dreariness of the town of starkfield. each day while passing the headstones on his property he feels as if they are mocking him.
- Analyzes how ethan frome marries zenobia after the death of his mother in an unsuccessful attempt to escape the silence, isolation, and loneliness of life. their lack of communication makes the marriage more miserable.
- Analyzes how ethan frome finds silence between him and zeena and the dreariness she carries. the pale light reflected from the banks of snow made her face look more than unusually drawn and bloodless.
- Analyzes how ethan frome falls in love with mattie in an attempt to escape the entrapment of the failing marriage.
- Narrates how mattie, being young and single, often went to gatherings in town, and ethan took it upon himself to meet her afterward and escort her home.
- Analyzes how mattie, while escorting her home, wants to tell her his feelings and thoughts, but the fact that he had no right to show them made him attach a fantastic importance to every change in her look and tone.
- Analyzes how zeena decides to visit a doctor in the neighboring town. ethan dreamed of them being alone together, spending the evening sitting by the fire, as if they were married.
- Analyzes how ethan's entrapment with zeena is disrupted by the eerie sense of her presence, and the broken red dish.
- Analyzes how ethan and mattie realize their mutual feelings, but zeena's return forced them back to dreadful reality.
- Analyzes how zeena is able to manipulate her husband by using her health to justify her actions and personality.
- Analyzes how ethan tries desperately to find a way for them to escape together, but discovers the true reality of his entrapment of their marriage to zeena.
- Analyzes how edith wharton wrote ethan frome because it vividly reflected her dreary life. abandoned of any love as a child from her mother, she found herself relying on illicit love.
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- Compares edith wharton's ethan frome with the classic fairytale snow white.
- Analyzes how zeena frome resembles the evil witch of the fairytale snow white in many ways. she's bitter and jealous, and she ordered the huntsman to kill little snow.
- Analyzes how zeena frome fulfills the characteristics of the evil witch from snow white, but ethan frome triumphs over the silvery maiden.
- Compares edith wharton's ethan frome with the classic fairytale snow white.
- Analyzes how zeena frome resembles the evil witch of the fairytale snow white in many ways. she's bitter and jealous, and she ordered the huntsman to kill little snow.
- Analyzes how zeena frome fulfills the characteristics of the evil witch from snow white, but ethan frome triumphs over the silvery maiden.
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