At the end of the story Zeena is affect by the way that they both try and commit suicide because that’s the only way that they could actually be together head stone by head stone, and if they lived they knew that they couldn’t have a chance of being together, after everything they got into a sled accident and they did not die they were both injured and after Zeena needing someone to take care of her she ended up taking care of both Mattie and Ethan because they were both hurt, Zeena took in Mattie when the doctors said it was okay for her to be moved locations “If it was good enough for Mattie I guss it’s good enough for a hired girl”(Wharton129)
Love becomes the irony in the story. Love is the irony because winter is cold and frail as of summer that is full of warmth and happiness, love should be in the