Ethan Frome - Oxford Bookworms Library - Level 3 - Third Edition

Life Is Always Hard For The Poor, In Any Place And At Any Time. Ethan Frome Is A Farmer In Massachusetts. He Works Long Hours Every Day, But His Farm Makes Very Little Money. His Wife, Zeena, Is A Thin, Grey Woman, Always Complaining, And Only Interested In Her Own Ill Health. Then Mattie Silver, A Young Cousin, Comes To Live With The Fromes, To Help Zeena And Do The Housework. Her Bright Smile And Laughing Voice Bring Light And Hope Into The Fromes' House - And Into Ethan's Lonely Life. But Poverty Is A Prison From Which Few People Escape . . .