![]() He sets out to learn about the life of a mysterious local figure named Ethan Frome, a man who had been injured in a horrific "smash-up" twenty-four years before. The first chapter opens with an unnamed male narrator spending a winter in Starkfield. The novel is framed by the literary device of an extended flashback. ![]() The narrator tells the story based on an account from observations at Frome's house when he had to stay there during a winter storm. Ethan Frome is set in a fictional New England town named Starkfield, where an unnamed narrator tells the story of his encounter with Ethan Frome, a man with dreams and desires that end in an ironic turn of events. ![]() Ethan Frome is a novel by the Pulitzer Prize-winning American author Edith Wharton. ![]()
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