At the post office, Ethan usually buys a copy of the local newspaper and sometimes picks up medicine for his wife, Zenobia, or Zeena for short. Ethan was in the daily habit of driving his buggy from his farm to the post office in Starkfield, in order to pick up his post. The narrator describes how he saw Ethan for the first time. There, he comes across Ethan Frome and becomes intrigued by his story, which he investigates and relates. The narrator is distinct from the author herself, being an engineer, apparently male, who is sent by his employer to the isolated village of Starkfield, Massachusetts to do a job. Studyworld Studynotes - Quotes - Reports & EssaysĮthan Frome opens with an Introductory Note, which, like the rest of the story, is put into the mouth of an anonymous narrator.
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