Ethan Frome by Edith Warton

The quote, “ Her tragic heroines and heroes are the victims of the group pressure of convention; they are passionate or imaginative spirits, hungry for emotional and intellectual experience, who find themselves locked into a small closed system, and either destroy themselves by beating their heads against their prison or suffer living death in resigning themselves to it”, by Edmund Wilson, is thoroughly expressed in the novella Ethan Frome, by Edith Warton. In this quote, Wilson is stating that the characters in which Edith Warton creates to be “ Her tragic heroines and heroes…” are really the victims of wanting to live life to t...