Back to category: Novels Limited version - please login or register to view the entire paper. symbolism in Ethan Frome In “Ethan Frome” by Edith Wharton there are many forms of symbolism. Some of which are the pickle dish, the missing “L” on the house, the gravestone bearing Ethan’s name, and the name Starkfield. The first example of symbolism is the pickle dish breaking. “The cat, profiting by this unusual demonstration, tried to effect an unnoticed retreat, and in doing so backed into the pickle dish, which fell to the floor with a crash. Mattie, in an instant, had sprung from her chair and was down on her knees by the fragments. ‘Oh Ethan, Ethan—It’s all to pieces! What will Zeena Say?’ …She lifted stricken eyes to him. ‘Yes, but, you see, she never meant it should be used, not even when there was company; and I had to get up on the step-ladder to reach it down from the top shelf of the china closet, where she keeps it with all her best things, and of course she’ll want to know why I did it---‘The case was so serious that it called forth all... Posted by: Kelly G Hess Limited version - please login or register to view the entire paper. |
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