Monday, April 29, 2013

Zeena Frome

Zeena Frome 


Zeena Frome is Ethan Frome's older, unnatractive, sickly wife who is in a one-sided marriage.  She loves Ethan but he does not feel the same way about her.  Zeena also has suspicions of Ethan and Mattie's relationship.  Although sometimes being hatred, Zeena seems to draw the most sympathy in the novel. 

"Zeena had always been what Starkfield alled "sickly," and Frome had to admit that, of she were as ailing as she believed, she needed the help of a stronger arm than the one which lay so lightly in his during the night walks to the farm." (pg. 25)

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