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Body as mentality in Edith Wharton's Ethan Frome.(Ensayo crítico)

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From: Atenea
Date: 20051201
Author:Wendt, Tracy

In the introduction to Ethan Frome, Edith Wharton discusses her stylistic intention as an author to portray complex theory through relentlessly "simple" characters. Where "any attempt to elaborate and complicate their sentiments would have falsified the whole," the characters' representations are circumscribed through lack of education, finances, and communication reciprocated by their snowy, barren environment. The isolated figure emerges "scarcely more articulate" than his origins (4). Although bombarded with simplifying forces, the characters' incapacity to express their ...

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