The beginning quote is somewhat confusing. I don’t really know what it means out of context.
Don’t need the coma. Ethan Frome, the centre of the novella, Ethan Frome, lives a depressing life with his wife, death and connect to Ethan Frome’s complicated life (what does this part mean it is somewhat confusing)
Concerning death in the story, the elm tree is an excellent example (YOU NEED A TRANISTION I DO NOT KNOW IF CONCERNING COUNTS SAYING SOMETHING IS AN EXCELLENT EXAMPLE PUTS PERSONAL OPINION INTO THE PAPER WHICH YOU CAN NOT DO)
Ned Hale and Ruth Varnum, meets under the spruces of the tree. (WHO ARE THEY WHY DO THE CONNECT TO MATTIE AND ETHAN)
This landmark represents danger and foreshadows unfortunate events. (HOW?)
These lovers attempt to commit suicide because they can no longer stand being apart (Smith 90). (YOU NEED TO USE QUOTATION MARKS UNLESS THIS IS AN IDEA THAT YOU PARAPHRASED)
“leave each other any more” (ANYMORE IS ONE WORD)
However, they still cannot be together forever and survive the crash. The accident results in mental and physical suffering that will torture them for the rest of their lives (Smith 91). (CAN YOU CONNECT THIS TO ANYTHING IN REAL LIFE MAYBE SOMETHING WE READ IN CLASS?) SCARLET LETTER IS SIMILAR
The “L, an adjunct from the main house to the shed or barn, is missing from the house (THIS IS NOT A SENTENCE IT IS A SENTENCE FRAGMENT)
“hearthstone of the dwelling.” (CITE THIS) The narrator of the novella was even able “to see in the diminished dwelling the image of his own shrunken body (THIS SEEMS LIKE YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT THE NARATOR INSTEAD OF ETHAN)
Frome’s house is ruined and crippled like him and Mattie. (I DON’T THINK THAT IS CORRECT)
Also, the house is isolate from the rest of the world, like Frome (Smith 62). (ISOLATED?)