Ethan Frome
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Entrapment or Cowardice in ?
Corey James Haygood
American Studies Honors, Periods 3 & 4
Ms. Gossard
3/3/2000
Throughout Edith Wharton’s novel , Ethan is forced to make crucial decisions that affect the outcome of his life and others’ lives. He regrets most of the outcomes of his decisions and ....
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.... Ethan’s cowardice, which kept him from achieving his goals; he is trapped.
Ethan was not always trapped. When he was younger, he actually went to college. “…he [Ethan Frome] had taken a year's course at a technological 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. Th ....
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