New England Colonies

The short story, Ethan Frome, by Edith Wharton transfered the idea that with all love, conflict emerges and can possibly destroy affection. The author compiled a journey through which the main character, Ethan Frome, discovered that social ideals and expectations can contradict with one’s yearnings. Ethan Frome went through an emotional voyage over rough seas from the beginning to the end. Frome, a married man in Starkfield, a town in Massachusetts, was anchored down by his wife’s disability.…

In Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton, Ethan is shown to have many internal and external problems. This brings the question, “What is the primary cause for these problems?” into the readers mind. Many readers would say it is Zeena and her illness always bringing Ethan down. Some people say it is Maddie leading him on to get with her. The real source of all of Ethan’s problems is where he lives, Starkfield. Starkfield has basically ruined Ethan’s chance of true happiness from the beginning by holding…

But through religion these were taught and many bible stories were included in this book including the lords prayer and other basic Christian traditions. After the New England Primer, was Noah Webster’s Speller which was a book meant to teach children how to read it is like the New England primer but different. Next were McGuffey’s readers a series of books, meant to help children to read and learn the word of God. These books read more like a novel and used fun ways to teach…

Harvard Pilgrim Healthcare is a not-for-profit health service company that strives to improve the quality of health and care for its members in states like Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Hampshire, and Maine. Harvard Pilgrims main goal is to make a difference and create value through those differences in the community, in their company, in the marketplace and with their business partners, suppliers and vendors. In recent years, Harvard Pilgrim Healthcare has made continual effort in overall…

Running on Empty Ethan Palmer is a teenager living in Halifax, Nova Scotia with his father and sister. The death of his mother has caused Ethan’s personality to significantly change and resulted in him struggling throughout high school. To cope with his mother’s death, Ethan uses his passion for muscle cars to escape his reality and suppress his feelings of anger. Throughout the story, Ethan has several confrontations with his father regarding the direction of his life, crashes his car and…

Marblehead was established as a fishing community in 1649 and trade with cities became a major source of income for many of the town’s inhabitants. One of the most efficient ways to transport goods at this time was by train. For my Area of Inquiry project I would like to research the history of the trade by means of train into and out of the town. My project will start with research of the Boston and Maine Railroad Company. This information can be found on various websites for and about the…

One of Ethan Frome’s centric ideas is that Ethan retreats from life into a vision. He escapes his reality to enjoy a few blissful moments in his dream, but never acts to make that dream come true. Harmon Gow says, “Guess he’s been in Starkfield too many winters. Most of the smart ones get away”(Wharton 6). While having every reason to leave Starkfield and his querulous wife, the man doesn’t. Ethan’s moral and social values combined with his indecisiveness cause him to retreat from life into a…

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito was born in Trenton, New Jersey, on April 1st, 1950. His parents were Rose Fradusco and Samuel A. Alito, Sr.. His mother was a schoolteacher; his father was the Director of the NJ office of Legislative Services and an italian immigrant. He attended Steinert High School, the local public school, where he immersed himself in extracurricular activities with a focus on student politics and debate. He graduated at the top of his class and continued his education at…

In the novel, Ethan Frome, Edith Wharton uses the country setting of Starkfield. The name “Starkfield” gives the reader a cold, hard impression of the snowy New England setting. Wharton conveys Starkfield as a place of primitivism and ignorance because of its isolation and bitterly cold climate. Ethan Frome, the protagonist, is a subject to his environment as he lives a cold, cyclic life. However, Ethan isn’t the only one who is affected by his environment, as Zeena and Mattie also live in…

Stuck on a farm, forced to deal with the eventual death of both his parents and lost in the beauty of the house maid Mattie Silver, Ethan Frome is a victim in Edith Wharton's novel Ethan Frome. Throughout the novel, Wharton highlights the circumstances Frome's faces that lead him to his incident on the sled when Mattie and he crash into a tree. Wharton begins Frome’s journey of poor circumstances when his father dies and he is left in Starkfield to tend for his sick mother while still…