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Haunting,
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This review is from: Ethan Frome (Paperback)
I first heard about Ethan Frome when reading the Divine Feud: a biography of Bette Davis and Joan Crawford. Apparently, Bette Davis spent a lifetime trying to get the story filmed. So I bought Ethan Frome and read it. It is a novella written by Edith Wharton. Some say that the story was loosely based on her own personal relationships at the time. Whatever the genesis of the story, it is haunting. It stayed with me for a few days. Wharton creates a strong atmosphere, vivid characters and a sense of doom. There are many themes in the story I think: the overwhelming one for me is the hopelessness of the very poor and the tyranny of fate. Fate however can of course be the result of many decisions made along the way, those decisions which lead to hoplessness are the ones which should truly be lamented.
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Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton (Paperback - February 28, 2007)
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