Edith Wharton is an American author of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In her novella Ethan Frome, Wharton uses symbolism as a means of developing the theme of her story. Ethan Frome takes place in a small New England community in which there is little acceptance towards sinful deeds. Around the Frome house many objects take a symbolic level. The cat, the "L" shaped barn, the red pickle dish, and the elm tree all have a not literal meaning. Wharton uses all these things as a way of developing the theme of failure in this story.
The red pickle dish was most important of all the three symbols. It was a hardly ever-used dish that was only brought down rarely in the spring for dusting. "The
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