Ethan Frome Death Quotes

Ethan Frome had tired to leave Starkfield, Massachusetts many times though out the novella but each time death give him a reason to stay in Starkfield. Ethan's parents aren't ever named, in the novella and are dead before the story truly begins, but they play a very key role in the development of Ethan Frome. The death of his father was the first death he experiences. Ethan Frome was a young man with his eyes sight on leaving Starkfield for good. He had left for college with the hopes of studying physics. Unfortunately his father had pass away from an accident on his farm. His death forced Ethan to return home because of the serious change in the family's financial situation with no one to run the farm but Ethan and his mother. Ethan reflects back at that time by saying this "His father's death, and
After his dad died, leaving Ethan to take care of the mill, the farm, and his mother, soon fell ill. His mother stopped talking soon after and the quietest and loneliness he experiences because his mother stop talking became so harsh that he would beg her to speak but all she would say is that their is “loudness of the voices in the yard,”. Soon after his mother died and in this quote he looks back at his mother death. “After the funeral, when he saw [Zeena] preparing to go away, he was seized with an unreasoning dread of being left alone on the farm; and before he knew what he was doing he had asked her to stay there with him. He had often thought since that it would not have happened if his mother had died in spring instead of winter.” In this quote he explains why he did not move away from Starkfield and why he ends up marrying Zenobia. He says if his mother had died during spring he would have moved the reason for this is because during the spring he would be able to communicate with other people breaking the silence he