https://padlet.com/daarchamba17/k07jodngml5j by Dakota Archambault and Megan Leslie en-us 2017-02-15 13:35:22 UTC 2017-03-22 16:59:50 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Xmastree.png daarchamba17 https://padlet.com/daarchamba17/k07jodngml5j/wish/154001466 How does the setting contribute to the way the characters are portrayed, act, and how does it affect their lives? ]]> 2017-02-15 14:03:38 UTC https://padlet.com/daarchamba17/k07jodngml5j/wish/154001466 daarchamba17 https://padlet.com/daarchamba17/k07jodngml5j/wish/154002283 Often an urban setting, naturalism includes the study of human beings and how they are governed by forces of heredity and environment. 

Heredity caused Ethan to stay in the same farm house almost his whole life (same setting) causing him to become detached and bored of his daily routine. -Page 28 ("Demurred at having to do the extra two miles to the village and back after his hard day on the farm" "Starkfield might give its nights to revelry")(Revelry-  lively and noisy festivities) ]]> 2017-02-15 14:05:38 UTC https://padlet.com/daarchamba17/k07jodngml5j/wish/154002283 meleslie171 https://padlet.com/daarchamba17/k07jodngml5j/wish/154003537 "Left alone, after his father's accident, to carry the burden of farm and mill, he had had no time for convivial loiterings in the village; and when his mother fell ill the loneliness of the house grew more oppressive than that of the fields." 

The setting - Starkfield, specifically the farm he lives on contributes to his character because the farm became a burden as he wasn't able to have any free time. This caused Ethan to become detached from the outside world and working was the only thing he was comfortable with doing. This is why he doesn't feel an attachment to his wife, as she was there since his mom got sick and that's when Ethan started concentrating on work.  ]]> 2017-02-15 14:08:52 UTC https://padlet.com/daarchamba17/k07jodngml5j/wish/154003537 meleslie171 https://padlet.com/daarchamba17/k07jodngml5j/wish/154568091 The setting is emphasizing nature and the limitations it imposes. The setting is integral to the story and may sometimes become a character within itself.

It is the liking of nature that helps bond Mattie and Ethan and it is also the setting that ultimately brings them their demise. 
(page 29-30 - nature bonding)
(page 143 - suicide attempt)]]> 2017-02-17 12:58:34 UTC https://padlet.com/daarchamba17/k07jodngml5j/wish/154568091 meleslie171 https://padlet.com/daarchamba17/k07jodngml5j/wish/154570416 The town is not viewed very highly
-"Guess he's [Ethan] been in Starkfield too many winters. Most of the smart ones get away."
-"But when winter shut down on Starkfield, and the village lay under a sheet of snow perpetually renewed from the pale skies, I began to see what life there-or rather its negation-must have been in Ethan Frome's young manhood."
 
Importance of the setting being in the time of winter, imagine if the setting was set in the middle of the summer. ]]> 2017-02-17 13:12:44 UTC https://padlet.com/daarchamba17/k07jodngml5j/wish/154570416 meleslie171 https://padlet.com/daarchamba17/k07jodngml5j/wish/154573688 "For years that quiet company had mocked his restlessness, his desire for change and freedom. 'We never got away-how should you?' seemed to be written on every headstone; and whenever he went in or out of his gate he thought with a shiver: 'I shall just go on living here till I join them.']]> 2017-02-17 13:28:19 UTC https://padlet.com/daarchamba17/k07jodngml5j/wish/154573688 meleslie171 https://padlet.com/daarchamba17/k07jodngml5j/wish/154575570 -Offers Ethan a way to break his mundane routine
- "Zeena took the view that Mattie was bound to make the best of Starkfield since she hadn't any other place to go; but this did not strike Ethan as conclusive."
-Page 107 ("I might get something to do over at Stamford,'  She faltered, as if knowing she had no hope.")
-Page 143 ("If I missed my train where'd I go?")
-Stuck in Starkfield, much like Ethan, the setting traps the pair ]]> 2017-02-17 13:37:01 UTC https://padlet.com/daarchamba17/k07jodngml5j/wish/154575570 daarchamba17 https://padlet.com/daarchamba17/k07jodngml5j/wish/155425594 Naturalism in American Literature
http://public.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/natural.htm
Regionalism and Local Color Fiction, 1865 - 1895
http://public.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/lcolor.html
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton ]]> 2017-02-22 13:02:41 UTC https://padlet.com/daarchamba17/k07jodngml5j/wish/155425594 daarchamba17 https://padlet.com/daarchamba17/k07jodngml5j/wish/155428922 -"Ned Hale and Ruth Varnum came just as near running into the big elm at the bottom. We were all sure they were killed." 

This part of nature is vital to the importance of the setting, as well as how the characters (Specifically Ethan and Mattie) act and the way it affects their lives. In the beginning their destiny is hinted at with the elm tree and the near death of the other young couple. It is this part of nature (elm tree) that at first offers them a way to escape the town of Starkfield and their seemingly grim fates of being separated, but then it is what forces them to stay for the rest of their lives. Together but not in the way they wanted to be.]]> 2017-02-22 13:18:40 UTC https://padlet.com/daarchamba17/k07jodngml5j/wish/155428922 daarchamba17 https://padlet.com/daarchamba17/k07jodngml5j/wish/161891745 Our idea for the question came from the way Ethan acted to certain situations in which the setting had a role. This includes the town they live in and season the events occur in.]]> 2017-03-22 16:51:17 UTC https://padlet.com/daarchamba17/k07jodngml5j/wish/161891745