A poor, taciturn New England farmer trapped in a joyless marriage to his hypochondriac wife Zeena falls in love with her cousin Mattie, and their doomed passion ends in a shattering act of despair.
Books mentioned in Ethan Frome (1)
Curfew Must Not Ring To-Night by Rose Hartwick Thorpe: “recite “Curfew shall not ring to-night,” and play “The Lost Chord””
Looking for Alaska by John Green: “immersed in the miserably uninteresting fictional world of Ethan Frome”
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller: “There was the Bible, of course, but the Bible was a book, and so were Bleak House, Treasure Island, Ethan Frome and The Last of the Mohicans.”
Elmer Gantry by Sinclair Lewis: “there are books like ‘Ethan Frome’ and ‘Père Goriot’ and ‘Tono-Bungay’ and Renan’s Jesus”
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri: “In his English class he reads Ethan Frome, The Great Gatsby, The Good Earth, The Red Badge of Courage.”