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Ethan Frome is a story that shows the continuous effects of no affection, but out of the three main characters who suffered the most? Was it Mattie, a barren young woman with nothing but the head on her shoulders? How about Zeena, a woman who has been contingent ....

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.... to form feelings toward Mattie but I think that they both knew that it would never actually be right because Zeena would always stand in the way of their love for each other. Toward the end Ethan and Mattie decide that the only way that they could ever be together is in death itself. The weak attempt at death on top of everything left Mattie a quadriplegic and had to be spoon-fed for the rest of her life by Zeena. Mattie was in a way, taken advantage of by Ethan. He made her sense that she was needed, which was something that she deserved, but after he found out that he couldn’t have what he wanted; he brainwashed her into thinking that that ....