Ethan Frome
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- poverty, rural living
- "ethan frome" reacts strongly against a strain of literature romanticizing ____ and ___ ___.
- 1910
- the year edith & morton's relationship ended
- rural setting
- "ethan frome's" ___ ____ is different from wharton's other works
- married
- wharton and morton's relationship was doomed because he was...
- unforgiving, hostile
- to wharton, nature may be beautiful, but it is also ___ and ___ to human life and desires
- tragic flaw
- a tragic hero's fault is being in the wrong place with the wrong set of skills, otherwise known as...
- control
- In many of whartons novels, human beings seem to have very little ___ over their own lives
- passionate, doomed
- wharton's affair with morton was ___ but ___
- tragic hero
- the protagonist seems to be defeated through no fault of their own
- doomed passion
- the force of ___ ___ is a central theme of "ethan frome"
- naturalism
- Wharton was deeply interested in the philosophical/literary movement of...
- naturalism
- explores the power of the environment over man
- circumstance, chance
- Wharton's characters are always the victims of ___, ___, or heredity
- ethan frome
- ___ ___ was an excercise assigned to wharton by her french teacher
- human morality
- Naturalists believed the world is selective, unforgiving, and unconcerned by ___ ___.
- tragedy
- characters meet tragic ends
- 1908
- what year did wharton begin an affair with morton?