Ethan Frome

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college at Worcester…” (p. 35) it says in the book. In fact, things were looking his way when his father died. He had to go home and take care of his mother. It would have been very cruel and selfish for him to neglect his sickly mother and stay in school. This was the first instance of Ethan being trapped. No good, honorable son would leave a dying mother all alone, just to help pursue their own goals in life. This may be considered cowardice by some, for they would say that Ethan should have hired some one to take care of his mother, so that he could stay in college and graduate. Leaving his mother would have been a terrible thing for Ethan to do. Ethan’s mother needed him. There was nothing Ethan could do; he was trapped and that was only the beginning of Ethan’s problems.
When Ethan’s cousin Zeena came to help take care of his mother, he did not fell trapped for a little bit. “He [Ethan Frome] felt that he might have ‘gone like his mother’ if the sound of a new voice ...

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