Ethan Frome

Ethan is a brave man when he decided to have Zeena stay and live with him then get married after she had helped Ethan’s mother when she was in dire need of assistance. Zeena just came to live with Ethan because his mother was sick so she could help take care of her. Ethan showed his nobility by marring her because the proper thing to do was to help marry her. “After the funeral, when he saw her preparing to go away, he was seized with an unreasoning dread of being left alone on the farm; and before he knew what he was doing he had asked her to stay there with him.” This shows how Ethan was a brave man even though he looks bad in the book. Ethan should be given more credit for what he tried to do to help. Even if he did some bad things he still tried to fix his mistakes.