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Title: Ethan Frome Writing Workshop


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Ethan Frome Writing Workshop
  • In the novel Ethan Frome, author Edith Wharton
    uses foreshadowing on Ethans relatives
    gravestone as a strategic tool that helps to
    display the themes of the book fate, free will,
    and death. The words inscribed on the tombstone,
    quote, indicate that like his forefathers,
    Ethan is fated to endure his marriage with Zeena.
    Unlike free will, this is Ethans destiny.
    Irrespective of fate or free will, Ethans
    ultimate destiny is death.
  • Sub-thesis points
  • 1. Fate (p2)
  • 2. Free Will (p3)
  • 3. Death (p4)

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Example Two
  • In Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton, the significance
    of Ethan Frome seeing the grave that had the
    engraving Ethan Frome and his wife Endurance who
    dwelled together in peace for fifty years, (33)
    is that Wharton portrays that this will be
    Ethans fate whether or not he wants it to be.
  • Sub-thesis points
  • 1.
  • 2.
  • 3.

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An interpretation
  • Perhaps this quote means that Ethan is hopeful
    that his relationship with Zeena is a smooth
    roadno bumps, no potholesand that he can just
    live out his existence with her.
  • Perhaps this quote means that Ethans forefather
    did not exert his own free will and get out of a
    relationship that was a painful as Ethans with
    Zeenaand that Ethan has a choice to endure or
    to flee.

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Example Three
  • The significance of the gravestone in Ethan
    Frome, by Edith Wharton, was that it symbolized
    the living death that Ethan was living in while
    he was still trapped in his marriage to Zeena,
    everyones fate to die, and the permanence of a
    commitment such as marriage.
  • Sub-thesis points
  • 1.
  • 2.
  • 3.
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