Sometimes, there’s more to Lit than meets the eye.
Ethan Frome is loaded with symbols of death. We thought the dead cucumber vine was a pretty good one:A dead cucumber-vine dangled from the porch like the crape streamer tied to the door for a death...
The red pickle dish isn't only a symbol of shattering and death. It's also a player in another set of symbols, all centering around the color red. The color red is often related to desire, love, se...
When Ethan goes to pick up Mattie from the dance, he watches her through the windows of the church basement. He is literally outside in the cold looking in on the warm place, where young people are...
Like many of the symbols in Ethan Frome the farm, the sawmill, and the railroad show Ethan their most sinister aspects, expressing the anxiety of an early 20th century people moving away from rural...
Silence is a big symbol in Ethan's life. He wants laughter and sound, but he always gets silence. We learn Ethan married Zeena because she was the first voice he had heard in his house since his mo...
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