https://padlet.com/shirleen_degrenier/6mw9ino7cjfp Please post a significant quote from Chapter Two of Ethan Frome and provide your explanation. Next, comment on one other quote on the wall. en-us 2018-02-13 14:01:07 UTC 2025-11-18 20:21:59 UTC hello@padlet.com nspeddon6695 https://padlet.com/shirleen_degrenier/6mw9ino7cjfp/wish/231094855 " She was a hundred times bitter and more discontented than when he had married her: the only pleasure left her was to inflict pain on him. All the healthy instincts of self-defense rose up in him against such waste...." ]]> 2018-02-13 15:43:00 UTC https://padlet.com/shirleen_degrenier/6mw9ino7cjfp/wish/231094855 nspeddon6695 https://padlet.com/shirleen_degrenier/6mw9ino7cjfp/wish/231097509 "She looked so small and pinched, in her poor dress, with the RED SCARF wound about her, and the cold light turning her paleness sallow, that Ethan stood before her without speaking."]]> 2018-02-13 15:47:16 UTC https://padlet.com/shirleen_degrenier/6mw9ino7cjfp/wish/231097509 lvore2923 https://padlet.com/shirleen_degrenier/6mw9ino7cjfp/wish/232002795 "For the life of her smile, the WARMTH of her voice, only COLD paper and dead words" (49). The use of warmth as a description of Mattie's voice compared to the the coldness of Ethan's life.]]> 2018-02-15 16:43:51 UTC https://padlet.com/shirleen_degrenier/6mw9ino7cjfp/wish/232002795 lvore2923 https://padlet.com/shirleen_degrenier/6mw9ino7cjfp/wish/232006803 "With the sudden perception of the point to which his madness had carried him, the madness fell and he saw his life before him as it was" (54). Ethan realized his love for Mattie has made him go mad because he has not been able to show his love for her with Zeena around and he does not know how to exactly show it and it is making him do stuff that is not like himself.]]> 2018-02-15 16:49:59 UTC https://padlet.com/shirleen_degrenier/6mw9ino7cjfp/wish/232006803 kpirkle0642 https://padlet.com/shirleen_degrenier/6mw9ino7cjfp/wish/233339615 2018-02-20 16:00:55 UTC https://padlet.com/shirleen_degrenier/6mw9ino7cjfp/wish/233339615 kpirkle0642 https://padlet.com/shirleen_degrenier/6mw9ino7cjfp/wish/233339909 A red quote could be "The warm still kitchen looked as peaceful as the night before"-53 the night before is when Mattie and Ethan got to e alone and everything was nice for them so the warmth is symbolizing Mattie.

Blue-"For the life of her smile, the warmth of her voice, only cold paper and dead words" its saying just her speaking makes things cold ]]> 2018-02-20 16:01:20 UTC https://padlet.com/shirleen_degrenier/6mw9ino7cjfp/wish/233339909 sfaiz2543 https://padlet.com/shirleen_degrenier/6mw9ino7cjfp/wish/234064350 "The inexorable facts closed in on him like prison-warders handcuffing a convict. There was no way out - none. He was a prisoner for life, and now his one ray of light was to be extinguished."

This is a motif for how ethan is stuck in the life he has and he always will be 

Going into his cold dark “study” he placed the lantern on the table and, stooping to its light, read the message again and again. It was the first time that Mattie had ever written to him, and the possession of the paper gave him a strange new sense of her nearness; 

This shows the symbolism for how even when he's not with mattie he always feels close to her]]> 2018-02-22 02:44:12 UTC https://padlet.com/shirleen_degrenier/6mw9ino7cjfp/wish/234064350