Ethan Frome Day 2
Do Now: Complete Self-reflection on Personal Narrative assignment. If you have not turned your narrative in
today, explain why and what you will do to get it in a.s.a.p. Do this on a separate sheet of paper.
Learning Target: Determine the affects of characterization on the reader.
Taciturn Every one in Starkfield
knew him (Ethan) and gave him a greeting tempered with his own grave mein; but his taciturnity was respected and it was only on rare occasions that one of the older men would detain him for a word.
silent - uncommunicative – reservedA person who says little.
Conspicuous The post master would
hand him an envelope addressed to Mrs. Zenobia—or Mrs. Zeena Frome, and usually bearing conspicuously in the upper left-hand corner the address of some manufacturer of patent medicine.
Conspicuous smile
Conspicuous- standing out, drawing attention
Focus on Descriptions
of EthanMark or highlight
descriptions of the character.
Film Depiction of Frome