As a child, she displayed a marked interest in writing and literature, from which her socially ambitious mother attempte to dissuade her. She was privately educated by a series of governesses and tutors both at home and abroad, who schooled her in foreign languages and European culture. Wharton was born into a wealthy New York City family on January 24, 1862. Though sometimes derided by reviewers as a morally bankrupt and pessimistic book, Ethan Frome has been reassessed by recent critics as a well-crafted and perceptive investigation of the human condition. Noted for its gloomy depiction of wintry, rural New England, Ethan Frome explores the effects of poverty, isolation, and the pressures of conformity on individuals struggling to transcend societal expectations and find love and fulfillment. Her carefully crafted, psychologically complex fiction also reflects a concern for the status of women in society and for the moral decay she observed beneath the outward propriety of the social elite. Best known as a novelist of manners, Wharton chronicled the cruel excesses of American genteel society both at home and abroad at the beginning of the twentieth century in works ranging from The House of Mirth (1905) to The Age of Innocence (1920) and The Buccaneers (1938). INTRODUCTIONĪ mainstay of high school English curriculums due to its relative brevity, vivid symbolism, and concise language, among the many factors that recommend it to a younger readership, Ethan Frome (1911) remains among Wharton’s most recognizable and widely read novels. The following entry presents criticism of Wharton’s novella Ethan Frome (1911) through 2005. (Full name Edith Newbold Jones Wharton) American novelist, short-story writer, poet, memoirist, autobiographer, travel writer, and nonfiction writer. Ethan Frome INTRODUCTION PRINCIPAL WORKS CRITICISM FURTHER READING
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