Ethan Frome published by Eddie Wharton is set in Starkfield, Massachusetts in 1904. The story takes place in the cold and harsh weather of the New England state. The main character is a local farmer who takes care of his very cold, aggressive and disturbed wife, named Zeena. He had little hope with his wife until Zeena's cousin Matte arrived to help him. During this period, he slowly falls in love with Matte, causing his marriage and the relationship between him and Zeena to collapse. Ethan From was one of the classic American books of all time showing character development through difficult facts or conditions that reflect and teach us about relationship in today's social norms. Nathan was a poor man but quite intelligent and he respected his own calm nature. According to the narrator, a main character was described as a "striking character", but also later described as "the ruin of a man". These words symbolize two major characteristics that become contradictory in Nathan's facts or conditions. Ethan Frome's Characteristics presents the social and moral decisions we make in a boring way and have outcomes according to the rules of life. A quote from the prologue scene describes predicting the future in Ethan's situation "I guess he's been in Starkfield too many winters. Most smart ones run away." The symbolic quote describes Nathan's principle mirroring his physical environment with surrounding acts like emotional worry and the downward spiral of depression. Ethan Frome's imagery is built around cold, ice and snow, as well as shades of white. The characters constantly complain about the cold and the important scene depends on the use of a winter sport - sledding - as a means of suicide. These repetitive ideas help draw attention to the novel's medium. ......ugh, the novel never clearly and definitively mentions divorce, Ethan and Zeena's obviously flawed marriage, and the consequences of the marriage on both of them, make it clear that Wharton felt that the social against divorce and , in particular, Divorced women were harsh and destructive. This theme is found most boldly and clearly in Ethan's struggle between his desire for Mattie and his sense of duty to Zeena, his wife. Wharton shows/portrays Zeena as horribly loud and mean, without any redeeming attributes, while Mattie is kind, sweet, radiant, and a perfect match for Ethan. Ethan's desire to leave Zeena for Mattie is therefore completely understandable. Yet, because Ethan knows that society would judge very poorly a man who leaves his wife alone, and because he knows that without him Zeena would suffer in poverty, he cannot bring himself to leave her..