Ethan Frome
Novel by Edith WhartonWikipedia
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Oct 13, 2026
Riley HamiltonHOST
T-U-R-T-L-E-T-I-M Liam Neeson nearly got into a physical fight with Harvey Weinstein over Harvey Weinstein's cut of Ethan Frome.
Riley HamiltonHOST
Harvey apparently kept screaming, they don't call me Harvey Scissorhands for nothing.
Riley HamiltonHOST
But after hours of screaming, they finally were able to resolve their differences and they remain friends to this very day.
GraceHOST
Just-
ErinHOST
Oh my god, he was in Ethan Frome.
ErinHOST
Oh, we read Ethan Frome in high school, and everyone hated it but for some reason I loved it.
ErinHOST
I've been thinking about rereading it.
GraceHOST
Is Ethan Frome...
GraceHOST
Oh, it's a novella.
GraceHOST
Okay, I was gonna say, um, 'cause I have not read it, but I have a different Edith Wharton book that I am going to read eventually.
GraceHOST
But I'll get to it.
speaker_7HOST
The physical geography literally dictates the emotional boundaries of the characters.
speaker_6HOST
And then shifting continents, we have Edith Wharton's Ethan Frome, set in the brutal, unforgiving winter of New England.
speaker_7HOST
Another profoundly trapped protagonist.
speaker_6HOST
Ethan is a desperately poor farmer shackled to a failing farm and a sickly demanding wife, Zeena.
speaker_6HOST
If they leave the water, they freeze.
speaker_7HOST
Exactly.
speaker_7HOST
And in Wharton's Ethan Frome, the harsh New England winter serves an equally tragic but slightly different mechanical purpose.
speaker_6HOST
How so?
Steve StocktonNARRATOR
The Mount was Wharton's sanctuary from 1902 to 1911, a period of immense literary productivity.
Steve StocktonNARRATOR
It was here she wrote some of her most famous novels, including The House of Mirth and Ethan Fromm.
Steve StocktonNARRATOR
But it was also a place of personal turmoil.
Steve StocktonNARRATOR
Her marriage to the affable but mentally unstable Teddy Wharton was deteriorating.
TavaHOST
Yeah.
TavaHOST
Also, is it, like, well, I remember reading, like, Ethan Frome.
TavaHOST
Did you guys ever read that? No.
TavaHOST
Well, that's a classic, right? Yeah.