CCR Reading 2013-2014 -- JMBiddle
Ethan Frome Questions
Name:
Period: 1 or 5
Date:
PROLOGUE
1. What does the name Starkfield suggest about the setting?
2. How does Herman Gow corroborate this later?
3. What is the stereotype of an engineer?
4. How is the Narrator/engineer atypical?
5. Can the reader therefore trust what he tells us?
6. Why did Wharton have the Narrator say that he “…began to piece together this vision” (rather
than “version”) of Frome’s story?
7. What is significant about the missing “L”-structure on the farm?
8. What places do Herman Gow and Mrs. Ned Hale occupy in the story?
CHAPTER I
9. Since we know from the Prologue that the novel involves a tragedy, what foreshadowing devices
has the author used?
10. How is the setting itself a foreshadowing?