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"For the life of her smile, the warmth of her voice, only cold paper and dead words!"
This demostarates the warmth of mattie and her passion . Her warmth is a motif within the book

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"Her voice broke, and two small tears hung on her lashless lids and ran slowly down her cheeks"
eyes and eyelashessymbolize feminism and this shows how zeena had no lashes and wasnt as feminine and pretty as mattie who had lashes

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"And gathering up the bits of broken glass she went out of the room as if she's carried a dead body."

This quote is significant because it symbolizes Zeena and Ethan's broken marriage.

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"If I'd 'a' listened to folks, you'd 'a' gone before now, and this wouldn't 'a' happened,'' she said; and gathering up the bits of broken glass she went out of the room as if she carried a dead body....

the broken glass represents Ethan's and Zeena's marriage that is not ruined.

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Chapter 7: '"I knew the cat was a smart cat." she said in a high voice." but i didn't know he was smart enough to pick up the pieces of my pickle dish and lay 'em on the edge on the very shelf he knocked 'em off"- Zeena finds out about the pickle dish and if angry about it"
Chapter 8:"She looked so small and pinched, in her poor dress, with the Red scarf wound about her,"
Mattie is associated with red again

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"and gathering up the bits of broken glass she went out of the room as if she carried a dead body"

This quote symbolizes Ethan and Zeena's broken and destroyed marriage.

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“If I’d ‘a’ listened to folks, you’d ‘a’ gone before now, and this wouldn’t ‘a’ happened,” she said; and gathering up the bits of broken glass she went out of the room as if she carried a dead body..."

This could possibly foreshadow a future death in the story.

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“You didn’t suppose i was gone keep two girls did you? No wonder you were scared at the expense”

Zeena isn’t seeing the real reason why Ethan is complaining about making Mattie leaves. She thinks it’s becahse he can’t pay for both.

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'' she had taken everything else from him ,and now she meant to take the one thing that made up for all the other ''
EXPLANATION : Ethan is forced to stay with Zeena and the one thing that brings him happiness is Mattie an now Zeena is going to take that away from him too .

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"Through the obscurity which hid their faces their thoughts seemed to dart at each other like serpents shooting venom. Ethan was seized with horror of the scene and shame at his own share in it. It was as senseless and savage as a physical fight between two enemies in the darkness."

Ethan and Zeena's conflict is metaphorically described as a battle; they are verbally attacking each other.

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"Mattie suddenly drew her arms out of the steaming water. “It wasn’t Ethan’s fault, Zeena! The cat did break the dish; but I got it down from the china-closet, and I’m the one to blame for its getting broken.”"
This quote is very significant because Mattie stands up to Zeena and says that it was not Ethan's fault. Which kinda of reflects the love triangle between them.

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"She looked so small and pinched, in her poor dress, with the red scarf wound about her, and the cold light turning her paleness swallow."
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Carley -For I'd a been ashamed to tell him that you grudged me the money to bet back my health, wheni lost it nursing your own mother.  

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Carley -For I'd a been ashamed to tell him that you grudged me the money to bet back my health, wheni lost it nursing your own mother.  

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this is significant because Zeena admits that the only reason she is in the condition she is in is because she had to take care of Ethans mother. -

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QUOTE: “....and gathering up the bits of broken glass she went out of the room as if she’s carried a dead body” (92).
EXPLANATION: The broken glass referred to in this passage is the red pickle dish that Zeena’s cat knocked over whenMattie had brought it down to serve dinner to Ethan. Zeena carrying the broken pieces of the pickle dish like a ‘dead body’ shows how much the dish meant to her. Since the dish was a wedding gift from her aunt, she probably sees it as the institution of her and Ethan’s marriage that has also broken into pieces. Therefore, the pickle dish symbolizes Ethan and Zeena’s marriage; and it’s broken nature symbolizes the state of their marriage currently. The ‘dead body’ signifies their lifeless and fruitless marriage most likely.
MOTIF: Pickles and the pickle dish are a recurring theme in ‘Ethan Frome’. Pickles are a source of regionalism in this narrative, because pickles are very common in the New England region.

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"All the long misery of his baffled past, of his youth of failure, hardship and vain effort, rose up in his soul in bitterness and seemed to take shape before him in the woman who at every turn had barred his way. She had taken everything else from him; and now she meant to take the one thing that made up for all the others."
In this quote it shows how much hatred Ethan has towards Zeena as she is trying to take away the one thing that made him happy after years of sorrow and misery which was mattie. Essentially Ethan in bitter as he feels as if he has suffered long enough with Zeena.

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"and gathering up the bits of broken glass she went out of the room as if she carried a dead body"

This quote symbolizes the broken marriage between Ethan and Zeena, Ethan tried and failed to fix it, symbolizing that he could not fix their marriage.

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"I tried to keep my things where you couldn't get at 'em and now you've took from me the one I cared for most of all"

The dish symbolizes Ethan and Zeena's marry that Mattie has ruined like she ruined the dish. The quote is also significant because it shows how Zeena cares more about a dish than she does Ethan.

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"He wants I should have a hired girl. He says I oughn't to have to do a single thing around the house" pg79Chp
This quote is significant because Zeena is giving some of excuses why she wanted to hired another woman instead of just kicking out her own cousin. This also show how bad she doesn't want Matt in the house anymore and that she knows about Matt and Ethan's secret affair.

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"... and my folks all told me at the time you couldn't do n less than marry me after---" This quote is significant because she knew Ethan did not want to marry her because he liked her but because he did not want to be lonely

"... the familiar gesture of adjusting her false teeth before she began to eat." Shes described as more unattractive compared to how Ethan always describes Matt

"... you waited till my back was turned,..." symbolize Matt and Ethan waiting for Zeena to leave so they can actually be alone together and see where it goes.

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"...gathering up the bits of broken glass she went out of the room as if she carried a dead body.." This symbolizes the "death" or end of their marriage as she's walking out.

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"For the first time, in the light of the words he had just heard, he saw what he was about to do. He was planning to take advantage of the Hales' sympathy to obtain money from them on false pretenses." 

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"For the first time, in the light of the words he had just heard, he saw what he was about to do. He was planning to take advantage of the Hales' sympathy to obtain money from them on false pretenses." 

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Ethan is so worried about being with Mattie that he is almost turning into a different person. This quote shows how dynamic the character Ethan Frome is.

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" You're a bad girl, Mattie Silver, and I always known it."

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" You're a bad girl, Mattie Silver, and I always known it."

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This is ironic because Mattie is a very sweet girl and Zeena is known as the rude one. Here Mattie does something wrong and Zeena immediately starts yelling at her.

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" For a moment such a flame of hate rose in him that it ran down his arm and clenched his fist against her"

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" For a moment such a flame of hate rose in him that it ran down his arm and clenched his fist against her"

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After being told that Mattie would be sent away and another girl come and replace her he feels such a dark hatred towards her that for one second he wants to hit her. This is symbolic as it shows a more violent side of him than before.