What kind of an accident cripples Ethan Frome in Edith Wharton’s novel, Ethan Frome (1911)? August 19, 2011 by Pamela Landy · Filed Under: Literature Ethan Frome and his beloved, Mattie Silver, drive a sled into a tree in a botched suicide attempt in Edith Wharton’s novel, Ethan Frome. Related
