Ethan Frome
...s a result of his fathers death, Ethan’s mother was left all alone and so was his father’s saw mill. Ethan had no choice but to leave college and stop his classes so that he could go home and take care of his poor mother. Ethan went home like any respectable young man would do those days, As Marline Springer writes “Ethan Frome gives up scholarly ambitions to help an improvised motherly figures.” This move started a domino affect of bad choices and bad karma falling towards him. Ethan made decisions too quickly and gave them little or no thought Some of the decisions that Ethan made were not well planned and were blinded by quick thinking and natural human instinct. When Ethan got back from college, to his distress, his mother was stricken with a deadly disease. Now poor Ethan had double the work on his hands, taking care of the saw mill and his mother. So his cousin, Zeena, came to take care of his ill mother. Ethan saw how well Zeena had taken care of his mother, which gave him the idea that because she took care of his mother so well that maybe she would care for him as well as she cared for his mother. Ethan also thought that being alone during the hard cold winter was unbearable, which made him turn towards the decision of asking Zeena to marry him. After his mother had died he had also felt he owed Zeena for all her hard work, so he did the only thing he could afford and married her; this would turn out to be one of the worst decisions Ethan would ever make. Zeena’s hypochondriac nature was a huge weight on the soul of Ethan Frome. Zeena became “ill” from nursing Ethan’s mother, so Ethan thought it a good idea to bring Ma...