Adversity is the difficulties or hardships a person or character faces. In poems, novels, or short stories there are characters that face adversity. These adversities can be physically,mentally or even emotionally.These difficulties could effect someone negatively or positively.For example, Martin Luther King Jr. faced many adversities such as, discrimination, racism, and segregation. Characters such as Ethan Frome, Phoenix Jackson and Frederick Douglas faces faces many different adversities. In the novel “Ethan Frome”, Ethan is the main character. He faces a quite few adversities. In the novel he is described as a “ruin of a man”. Ethan suffers a long miserable life. At the age of a young adult he has to take care of his family. He dreamed
