Ethan Frome

A Nightmare of Need

• Author(s): Marlene Springer,
• Publisher: Twayne
• Pages: 129
• ISBN_10: 0805785868
  ISBN_13: 9780805785869
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Literary Criticism / American / General ,

Description:... Ethan Frome works his unproductive farm and struggles to maintain a bearable existence with his difficult, suspicious and hypochondriac wife, Zeena. But when Zeena's vivacious cousin enters their household as a hired girl, Ethan finds himself obsessed with her and with the possibilities for happiness she comes to represent.