Ethan Frome

In Ethan Frome the one who suffers the most is Ethan although he brought it upon himself. Ethan is miserable and like they say misery loves company so he makes everyone around him just as miserable as he is. Although Ethan is married he puts himself where he is in a loveless marriage and falls in love with Mattie, he can’t get divorced because it was an unethical thing to do so he suffered so much for falling in love with Mattie and kills himself. Ethan suffers physically, emotionally and mentally and it doesn’t help that his wife often puts him down. Ethan is emotional and can’t choose what he wants in his life. He is married and in love with his wife’s cousin. He isn’t rich so he doesn’t have many luxuries he is a farmer whose family is dead and admires nature. Ethan’s problem that makes him suffer the most is the fact that he can’t make up his mind whether he wants to tell Mattie how he feels about her although she already knows. Mattie is Ethan and Zeena’s cleaning lady Zeena replaces her with a more efficient cleaning lady that will do more work for her because she is sick. Ethan first notices Mattie when she comes to the church in her red scarf, he walks her home and then it all begins. Ethan was falling in love with her and Zeena was getting ideas of what was happening. Ethan was in such a bad situation hi only way out was to leave his wife. Divorce wasn’t an option, unfortunately for him his only way out was to either leave Mattie and stay with his wife and be miserable, or he could kill himself and be with Mattie in heaven. Mattie and Ethan came to the conclusion that them dying together was the best thing for them to do. He was suffering so much between the two women he was hurting himself mentally and all he could think about was being happy with Mattie. Ethan wants to come out and tell Mattie how he feels about her and be open but things just keep getting in her way. Ethan was so miserable he wrote a letter to Zeena saying “Zeena, I’ve done all I