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Quotation from Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

“He seemed a part of the mute melancholy landscape, an incarnation of its frozen woe”

Edith Wharton (spoken by Narrator)

Ethan Frome, Prologue

Portrait of Edith Wharton

The narrator's first impression of Ethan, identifying him with the winter scenery.

Citation: "He seemed a part of the mute melancholy landscape, an incarnation of its frozen woe" — Edith Wharton, Ethan Frome, Prologue. (id ethan-frome-q2)

Portrait: Edith Newbold Jones Wharton (cropped), E. F. Cooper, Newport, Rhode Island, Public domain.

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