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Ethan Frome Name: Yordan Sanchez Chapters One to Chapter Four Class/Period: AP Literature 1st Period Chapter 1 Questions: Notes: 1.) How does Wharton depict the village at the opening of the ch... apter? Wharton labels the village as if it was abandoned, rather unnerving as it is all still in the snowy setting. “The village lay under two feet of snow, with drifts at the windy corners. In a sky of iron the points of the Dipper hung like icicles and Orion flashed his cold fires. The moon had set, but the night was so transparent that the white house front between the elms looked gray against the snow, clumps of bushes made black stains on it, and the basement windows of the church sent shafts of yellow light far across the endless undulations” 2.) What additional information does the reader learn about Ethan’s past education and his reasoning for abandoning it? Ethan use to go to a technological college, until a lot of troubles occurred one after the other, ensuing in him having to give up on his studies. “Four or five years earlier he had taken a year’s course at a technological college at Worcester... His father’s death, and the misfortunes following it, had put a premature end to Ethan’s studies” [Show More]

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