Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton!
It is a plaintive story of a poor farmer, Ethan Frome, a man with thwarted desires and meagre resources. His entire life (past, present and future) is allegorical of hardship, austerity and distress! I was expecting it to be focused around passion (as from the blurbs), but I found it to be everything else but passion. Maybe had I read it a few years ago, then I might have exultantly and emotionally rated it high, but a mindset smacked with experiences, derives loopholes, and studies books with a different lens! The synopsis - A poor farmer ( Ethan Frome ) of meagre resources, Of bleak and stiffened appearance, Frozen by his tragic past, Imprisoned in a forever mortal silence, Having accumulated the cold, of many Starkfield winters! Living in a mute melancholy, Having lost his parents, Expecting a brief reprieve post marriage with Zeena , But both fall into a forever ghastly silence, No love, no communication, Just doctoring his sickly wife! The birds start twitterin...