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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Wharton, Edith

Wharton, Edith
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
An Appreciation Of Ethan Frome

The consensus of critical appraisal of Ethan Frome holds that it is
brilliant in form and design but lacking in feeling and depth; that its
characters are polished but sterile: complete but unfelt; that its setting is
elegantly staged rather than realistically presented. This view appears to be
accurate - if one uses the naturalistic novel and its offspring, the novel of
interior consciousness, as the ideal and basis of comparison. But it is an
inflexible insistence on this viewpoint that has made Ethan Frome a critical
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