Edith Wharton captures the reader by her descriptive sense of style. The critic J. D. Thomas comments that Wharton uses beautiful artistic writing to describe the setting of Ethan Frome's world filled with snowdrifts, sledges and struggle (Thomas 386). This is demonstrated in the passage:
The night was perfectly still, and the air so dry and pure that it gave little sensation of cold. The effects produced on Frome was rather of a complete absence of atmosphere, as though nothing less tenuous than either intervened between the white under his feet and the metallic dome overh
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