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“You’ve a poor man’s wife Zeena...” (pg.114) In the novel called “Ethan Frome” there are three characters who’s lives can be explained through naturalism. This can be used to explain why each ones life is so doomed and how their surroundings are di ....

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.... in Starkfield, as in more notable communities, had had troubles enough of their own to make them comparatively indifferent to those of their neighbors...” (pg.11). Naturalism even played a huge part of Ethan’s life since he was young. First “his father got a kick, out haying, and went soft in the brain, and gave away money like Bible texts afore he died.” (pg.13). Then his “...mother got queer and dragged along for years as weak as a baby...” (pg.13). Ethan Frome never had a chance in life to make it better because every possible bad thing happened to him. The second character named Zeena had her life doomed when she started to take c ....