Ethan Frome

Zeena.
             Zeena is described as an unattractive woman. The narrator says, "Under her shapeless dress her
             body kept its limp immobility, and her dark eyes had the bright witch-like stare . . . " (125).
             Through the author's use of detail the reader is able to see that Ethan's grey-haired wife is
             unpleasant to the eye. The narrator describes Zeena as lonely, "His wife looked so hard and
             lonely, sitting there in the darkness with such thoughts" (78). Zeena is described as harsh and
             unsympathetic also. Zeena is set in her
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