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Against the dark background of the kitchen she stood up tall and angular, one hand drawing a quilted counterpane to her flat breast, while the other held a lamp. The light, on a level with her chin, drew out of the darkness her puckered throat and the projecting wrist of the hand that clutched the quilt, and deepened fantastically the hollows and prominences of her high-boned face under its rings of crimping-pins.

Zeena is showed as old and wheathered unlike Mattie who is young.

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"She continued to gaze at him through the twilight with a mein of wan authority, as of one consciously singled out for a great fate. "I've got complications," she said."

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"She continued to gaze at him through the twilight with a mein of wan authority, as of one consciously singled out for a great fate. "I've got complications," she said."

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This motif represents the occurrence of Zeena's chronicle illness and complaints.

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"...That's an ugly corner down by the big elm. If a fellow didn't keep his eyes open he'd go plumb into it."
This foreshadows the accident.

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'...you [Mattie] waited till my back was turned, and took the thing I set most store by of everything I've got, and wouldn't never use it..."
In this quote Zeena is talking about her Pickle dish, but since we have already established that the pickle dish symbolizes her marriage with Ethan we can conclude that the quote refers to the marriage rather than the actual dish. Zeena states that she hid the dish and she never used it but it was the most important thing to her, which in reality means that Mattie took Ethan away from Zeena. No matter how hard Zeena tried Mattie found Ethan and she took him away from Zeena.

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Jotham’s facial muscles were unmoved by this appeal and, his vocabulary being limited, he merely repeated: “I guess I’ll go along back.”

To Ethan there was something vaguely ominous in this stolid rejection of free food and warmth, and he wondered what had happened on the drive to nerve Jotham to such stoicism.

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As her young brown head detached itself against the patch-work cushion that habitually framed his wife’s gaunt countenance, Ethan had a momentary shock.

This quote is significant because of how Ethan has a moment of realization. He comes to his senses and realizes that what he wants simply can't happen, it's just a fantasy of his.

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"It was intoxicating to find such magic in his clumsy words and he longed to try new ways of using it" (pg 52)

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"It was intoxicating to find such magic in his clumsy words and he longed to try new ways of using it" (pg 52)

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I believe that this quote is significant because he is discovering new ways to earn Mattie heart while at the same time is a way to show affection for her.

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"He stood up also, looking vaguely about the room. The clock above the dresser struck eleven."
This is significant to me because just before then, he was fantasizing about her and kissing the cloth, but after things got awkward and he stood up, he read the clock and it was eleven. To me, it symbolizes a fairy tale ending like in Cinderella, when the clock struck 12, everything went back to normal, just as his fantasies just ended.

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"and these perhaps in turn to a harmless caress, if only a mere touch on her hand"

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"and these perhaps in turn to a harmless caress, if only a mere touch on her hand"

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Ethan wants to show affection for Mattie in any way he can.

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"He had not even touched the tip of her fingers or looked her full in the eyes. But their evening together had given him a vision of what life at her side might be, and he was glad now that he had done nothing to trouble the sweetness of the picture. "

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"He had not even touched the tip of her fingers or looked her full in the eyes. But their evening together had given him a vision of what life at her side might be, and he was glad now that he had done nothing to trouble the sweetness of the picture. "

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Even tough Ethan and Mattie haven't made any physical contact, he is just happy to have been able to spend time alone with her. He is filled with joy with just the thought f his life with Mattie, together without Zeena.

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" She'll be rocking in it herself this time to-morrow, Ethan thought. I've been in a dream, and this is the only evening we'll ever have together. The return to reality was as painful as the return to consciousness after taking an anesthetic. "

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" She'll be rocking in it herself this time to-morrow, Ethan thought. I've been in a dream, and this is the only evening we'll ever have together. The return to reality was as painful as the return to consciousness after taking an anesthetic. "

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This quote is significant because its an example of realism. Ethan knows that this is only a fantasy and that tomorrow he would have to go back to the harsh reality of Zeena as his wife. Again the chair interrupts Ethan's pleasent mood

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""Oh, Ethan -- Zeena's come," she said in a whisper, clutching his sleeve. They stood and stared at each other, pale as culprits"
this quote shows how Ethan and Mattie are both scared that Zeena might find out about the dish but in a way they are also embarrassed about what happened between them while she was gone. Now that shes home they can't be as obvious with their feelings anymore.

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"and it seemed to him that a warm current flowed toward him along the strip of the stuff that still lay unrolled between them."
Shows the "warmth" that Ethan always feels when he is around Mattie.

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“I guess I do it to get used to the idea.” Mattie and Ethan are talking about her getting married in this scene. This quote is significant because, it shows Ethan is being more vocal about his feelings towards Mattie. He says this quote almost like a confession that proves that he likes Mattie, since he has to "get used to" the idea of her getting married.

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"His hard day’s work in the keen air made him feel at once lazy and light of mood, and he had a confused sense of being in another world, where all was warmth and harmony and time could bring no change. The only drawback to his complete well-being was the fact that he could not see Mattie from where he sat."
Ethan feels a change of emotion whenever he is with mattie, he feels he is another world because zeena never made him feel warm.

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"The cat, who had been apuzzled observer of these unusual movements, jumped up into Zeena's chair, rolled itself into a ball and lay watching them with narrowed eyes." Page 73
The cat again is symbolizing Zeena trying to get in the way of their relationship. Mattie and Ethan were close to holding hands and the cat did this to stop what was going on. Also the eyes represent the guilt of the affair going on.

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Her tone was so sweet that he took the pipe from his mouth and drew his chair up to the table. Leaning forward, he touched the farther end of the strip of brown stuff that she was hemming. "Say, Matt," he began with a smile, "what do you think I saw under the Varnum spruces, coming along home just now? I saw a friend of yours getting kissed."

this guy wanted to get close to her like if he was her mans and then he was like "yo i saw your amiga getting kissed" but he was actually thinking of him and mattie

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" come over here and sit by the stove" . Ethan wants to be close to Mattie and always want to be near the fire so they can be warm and have ,in a way, a wife and husband moment.

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"It's not because you think Zeena's got anything against me, is it?" (Wharton 24). Mattie senses Zeena's jealousy because Mattie and Ethan secretly have a thing for each other.

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"Zeena's empty rocking chair stood facing him. Mattie rose obediently, and seated herself in it."
Shows that Mattie is replacing Zeena.

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"Ethan had imagined that his allusion might open the way to the accepted pleasantries, and these perhaps in turn to a harmless caress, if only a mere touch on her hand." This thought is ironic, since the things he did and said produced the opposite affect.

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"we shall never be alone like this"
this is significant because it shows that ethan understands what he is doing with Mattie is wrong