Ethan frome test check my answers and correct if they are wrong

4. which word best describes the atmosphere, or mood, of the prologue and chapter i?
a. jolly

b. comfortable

c. severe

d. superstitious
b is wrong answer c

11. what kind of conflict describes the struggle between ethan and zeena over mattie?
answer man vs self due to his feeling for mattie and zeena's jealousy

12. what kind of narrative device does edith wharton use at both the beginning and the end of ethan frome?
answer i believe the narrating device is foreshadow.

14. in chapter iv, when ethan sees the headstone in the cemetery commemorating the fifty-year marriage of another ethan and his wife, endurance, what ironic thought strikes him?
answer his ironic thought is that he could be happy with mattie for the rest of his life when he thought the seven years he's ben with zeena seemed like to much

"Ethan Frome" is a novel by Edith Wharton that was first published in 1911. The story tells us about the life of Ethan Frome, at least his life before and after his "accident" 24 years prior to when the story is told.

The answers then, to the questions, would be as follows:

4. The word that best describes the mood both of the Prologue and Chapter I, would be: C: Severe. This is seen by the words that are used by the narrator and the people he encounters, as well as they way he describes what he sees around him. The sense one gets by reading these first two parts is of something severe, even gloomy.

11. The conflict between Zeena and her husband, Ethan, over Mattie cannot be easily framed into one type. There is a combination between man vs. self and man vs man. Man vs self, because Ethan is faced by the conflict of having feelings for his wife´s cousin, but being stuck with his life as it is, and not daring to do anything that might go against the status quo. Man vs. Man arises between Zeena and Ethan as the two know about the feelings between Ethan and Mattie, but the two struggle more on the ground of Mattie´s inappropriateness as a housekeeper and helper for Zeena, and Zena´s belief in the lack of necessity for Mattie.

12. Foreshadowing is one of the most evident literary devices used by Wharton, probably throughout the entire book. But this foreshadowing is most clear at the beginning, especially in the first chapters, when Ethan foresees probable outcomes for his future and then at the end, in the irony of how the future has evolved.

14. The biggest irony he sees is that the headstone proclaims that Ethan´s namesake, another Ethan Frome, and his wife, ironically named Endurance, were able to stay together peacefully for fifity years. Given the conflicting situation between him and his wife Zeena, which have made Ethan feel like he has already been married for fifty years, and the fact that he has been feeling dragged down by his marriage, he wonders if, as their counterparts, they too will be remembered in their epitapths as having been able to dwell "peacefully" together

lennie

is very stupid, big and strong and sweet, he loves soft things

george

is smart reosponible and watches over lennie

candy

candy is an old ranch worker who has lost one of his hands in a farm accident. he's spent the best years of his life working on someone else's ranch, only to lose his hand and have little money.

curly

is the ranch owners son he is said to have vasilene in one glove to keep that hand soft for his wife

crooks

crooks. crooks is a lively, sharp-witted, black stable-hand, who takes his name from his crooked back. like most of the characters in the story, he admits that he is extremely lonely. when lennie visits him in his room, his reaction reveals this fact.

curlys wife

is lonly and seems to flirt with most of the men on the farm she does not like her hunband much.

1. the human rights issue in the novel is equlity the men in the story are poor and curly is mean to all of them as if they are just dirt

2. the first issue comes up when lennie kills the mouse

3. when lennies love for soft things gets in the way and he kills curlys wife as shes running away.

4. the issue is resolved by the death of lennie.

5. lennie suffers because of his death he will never be able to tend the rabbits.

6. the wording in the qoutations imply what is happening in the story

7. when lennies love for soft things gets in the way and he kills curlys wife as shes running away.

8.   the issue is resolved by the death of lennie.