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A 3 page essay on the importance that winter plays in the story. Bibliography sites 1 source.
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the ending of her story. She made winter more than something that could just be seen and felt but also something that a person could be. Within the name
of Starkfield itself I think of cold emptiness. I picture a field that goes on for miles without one sight of a person or building upon it. I
think in the winter the town was just like that. The buildings were there but the weather was so brutal that if the townspeople didnt have to, or want to
go outside, they wouldnt. I pictured it as a sort of ghost town in terms that it was covered in white, like the sheet of a ghost, and not a
soul could be seen for miles around. The house was also a place of grayness and cold. I pictured the house as run down and devoid of happiness
until Mattie moved in. Even with Mattie living there the happiness didnt fill the house until Zeena went away to Bettsbridge. After she had gone away there was
color and vibrancy, but when she returned the house became forlorn and cold again. When the narrator is talking about the storm that he and Ethan got caught in when
they first met, I could just imagine the cold and brutality of the winters in Starkfield. Within the story though, Ethan finds the winter to be beautiful and calming. He
feels this way after having been in the company of Mattie Silver. She was his only source of happiness and warmth. "Now, in the bright morning air, her
face was still before him. It was part of the suns red and of the pure glitter on the snow." (43). The first description of Ethan Frome is that of
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