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Ethan Frome A Timeless Novel The writing in the novel, Ethan Frome is fantastic. The love of Ethan Frome is crystal clear. Ethan and Mattie ar both believably in love and Ethans desperation grips the reader. Zeena, I think, is the most well described of them all. She is reality itself--beyond love, beyond fate, and it is she who outlasts them all. Although I think I unload in love with both Mattie and Ethan in this story and was feeling that intense love and pain of imp cultivation separation in their last moments together, the realist in me love the ending Zeena, the old witch, the nagging and cunning negative hag, is the unity who is the rock in the moving stream. Its so 20th century. There is something black about the ending that you have to like. I like the way Zeenas image keeps popping up for Ethan Zeenas empty rocking-chair stood facing him. Mattie rose obediently, and seated herself in it. As her young brownness head detached itself against the patch-work cushion that habitually framed his wifes gaunt countenance, Ethan had a momentary shock. It was almost as if the some other face, the face of the superseded woman, had obliterated that of the intruder. And as hes hard to enter into eternity with his beloved . . . But suddenly his wifes face, with twisted monstrous lineaments, thrust itself between him and his goal, and he made an instinctive movement to brush it aside. here(predicate) are some example of the accurate description that I love in this story Through the obscurity which hid their faces their thoughts seemed to dart at each other like serpents shooting venom. Ethan was seized with horror of the scene and shame at his own share in it. It was as senseless and savage as a physical fight between two enemies in the darkness. All the long misery of his baffled past, of his youth of failure, hardship and vain effort, rose up in his brain in bitterness and seemed to take shape before him in the woman who at every turn had barred his way . She had taken everything else from him and now she meant to take the one thing that made up for all the others. For a moment such a flame of hate rose in him that it ran down his arm and clinch his fist against her.