...its long burden, and she had no more to say: but suddenly an impulse of complete avowal seized her. She took off her spectacles again, leaned toward me...don't see's there's much difference between the Fromes UD at the farm and the Fromes down in the gravevard; 'cept that down there they're all quiet, and the...

...Mattie is paralyzed. Now Ethan is trapped with two wretchedly unhappy women. As a family friend notes, "There was one day, about a week after the accident,...there's much difference between the Fromes up at The Write Stuff Ethan Frome is also highly symbolic: "Starkfield" is a stark field; Mattie "Silver" stands...

...imagine unquiet slumbers for the sleepers in that quiet earth'. Wharton, too, leaves us with a vision of the Fromes 'up at the farm' and 'the Fromes down in the graveyard', but locked in endless agitation. As the early reviews attested, the shock of finding living characters...

...foundations of the field. In choosing to end her novella with Mrs. Hale's comment that she doesn't see much difference between "'the Fromes up at the farm...that down there they're all quiet, and the women have to hold their tongues'" (Ethan Frome 181), Wharton suggests that regionalism was written by women who...

...The last line, spoken by Mrs. Ned Hale, one of the narrator's main informants, is just such a bit: "I don't see's there's much difference between the Fromes up at the farm and the Fromes down at the graveyard; 'cept that down there they're all quiet, and the women have got to hold their tongues"...

...it's a pity she did. If she'd died, then Ethan might have lived. The way they are now, I don't see there's much difference between the Fromes up at the farm and the Fromes down in the graveyard. (Sound of a train whistle) HALF, (ant). That'll be your train. Where do you go from here? HALE. Out...