Part one of term paper
“You’ve a poor man’s wife Zeena...” (pg.114) In the novel called “Ethan Frome” there are three characters who’s lives can be explained through naturalism. This can be used to explain why each ones life is so doomed and how their surroundings are directly related to their lives. The first character named Ethan had his life doom ...

Part two of term paper
... This is how naturalism plays its part in this novel because the surroundings of a character decide he or she’s life. Since Starkfield “...lay under a sheet of snow perpetually renewed from the pale skies...” (pg.7). Ethan’s life was already going to be trapped, helpless, and doomed. He should have already known this because “all the dwellers in Starkfield, as in more notable communities, had had troubles enough of their own to make them comparatively indifferent to those of their ne ...