In life change is inevitable, in novels it is a way of life. All of the characters in "Ethan Frome" change in one way or another, from Ethan falling in love with Mattie, to him starting to shave every morning. These changes from the minor ones to the major ones…

This book starts out with a boy named Ethan dieing and everybody said it was appendicitis however later Jason and some others realized it wasn't. Jason didn't like his life because he thought it was too boring and he thought his parents were too nice because they never punished him…

…time in the various different periods of history. It is a very rapid journey yet the author has managed with minimal amounts of words to convey exactly where Chalmers went and what he witnessed from the acting of a Shakespearian play in an Elizabethan theatre to him being a priest…