![]() Although bombarded with simplifying forces, the characters' incapacity to express their "sentiments" "articulate," or possess strong communicative abilities, is one of the key strategies Wharton employs for a psychologically simple yet intense character who personifies his mute landscape. The isolated figure emerges "scarcely more articulate" than his origins (4). Where "any attempt to elaborate and complicate their sentiments would have falsified the whole," the characters' representations are circumscribed through lack of education, finances, and communication reciprocated by their snowy, barren environment. ![]() In the introduction to Ethan Frome, Edith Wharton discusses her stylistic intention as an author to portray complex theory through relentlessly "simple" characters. ![]()
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