![]() ![]() After a week of riding with Ethan, The Narrator and Ethan are caught in a blinding snowstorm on their return to Starkfield. Temporarily unable to get to and from the train station in Corbury Flats, The Narrator acts on Gow's suggestion and asks Ethan to transport him back and forth. They provide The Narrator with bits and pieces of information about Ethan, which make him even more intrigued with the story of Ethan's life. ![]() Ned Hale, and Harmon Gow, a long-time resident and former stagecoach driver, about Ethan. The Narrator questions his landlady, Mrs. ![]() The main story, which describes the three and a half days before and including Ethan and Mattie's sledding accident, is written in third person - an omniscient narration that allows Wharton to relate the thoughts and feelings of all the characters.Įthan Frome begins when The Narrator, an engineer who is living temporarily in Starkfield, Massachusetts while working on a project in a nearby town, becomes curious about Ethan Frome. The frame story takes place nearly twenty years after the events of the main story and is written in first person, revealing the thoughts and feelings of The Narrator. ![]() The "frame" is The Narrator's vision of the tragedy that befalls Ethan Frome. Edith Wharton wrote Ethan Frome as a frame story - meaning that the prologue and epilogue constitute a "frame" around the main story. ![]()
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