Having listened to Ethan Frome (via librivox.org, to which I advise all of you to hasten), I am thinking back to high school, wondering what all the kvetching was about. Admittedly, it was depressing. Admittedly, if it had a moral, it was ambigious at best. Admittedly, either Edith Wharton invented a good chunk of the clichés used in modern Anglophone literature, or she couldn't be bothered to develop a metaphor of her own. Sure, it seemed a transparent attempt to ease her own guilt at her infidelities to her husband.
But hey, at least it was short!
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