In “Excerpt from Ethan Frome,” the narrator describes the setting in detail.

How do these descriptions help to reveal Ethan’s emotions? Write a

one-paragraph response, using multiple details from the passage to fully
support your answer. Be sure to have a clear topic sentence/introduction and
an effective concluding sentence. Type your response below.

In the “Excerpt from Ethan Frome” the narrator helps describe Ethan’s
emotions by putting the setting in great detail. When the pickle dish gets
broken he sets out to find something to mend the dish back together
because he doesn’t want his wife to know that he was having a nice dinner
with someone else. This helps to know that the broken pickle dish= broken
marriage and that Ethan’s emotions showed truly because he didn’t want his
wife to find out about the dish because it would hurt her.