Ethan Frome

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…his wife, the injured Mattie, and broken dreams. In these three way of marrying the wrong person, not being able to stand up to his wife, and incidents that come from the smash up, proves that the main theme of the book is failure. It appeared that everything Ethan tried to do worked against his favor. With all the incidents that happened, it seemed inevitable that his life would always be a string of failure.