Ethan Frome Sentence combining…

The sentences on each slide need to be combined into one

sentence.

• Edith Wharton wrote Ethan Frome

• In Ethan Frome, the color red represents love.

• The color red is found in Mattie’s scarf, the ribbon in her hair, and the pickle dish.

• The only two colors in the novel and red and shades of white.

• Wintriness dominates the landscape.

• The splashes of red are in direct contrast to what is normal in the book.

• The unvarying winter parallels Ethan’s unvarying life.

• The brief flashes of red parallel the flashes of love that come into Mattie life.

• She herself wears two out of the three instances of red.

• When the color red is present, Ethan’s existence is energized.

• The color red brings life to Ethan’s otherwise dead life.

• Ethan’s every day life, dominated by winter, is dead compared to his life when the color red is present.

• The pickle dish is the only red item that isn’t a possession of Mattie’s.

• The pickle dish also gets broken.• Ethan’s love and therefore the

liveliness in existence, breaks as well.

• The pickle dish belonged to Zeena.

• The hindrance to Mattie and Ethan’s love was also Zeena.

• The pickle dish was the first red item to break.

• The breaking of the dish foreshadowed the ruin of Ethan and Mattie’s love.

• Once all the red things were gone, Ethan’s life returned to the deathlike state of winter.

Combine…

• Perhaps the pickle dish was the potential love of Zeena and Ethan.

• The dish irreparably broke.• There was no more hope for their

love.