ETHAN FROME When books are made into movies many changes are made. The movie version of Ethan Frome does a descent job of turning the book by Edith Wharton into a movie. It makes many changes from the book that are necessary to turn the story into a movie. The most obvious difference from the book is the way the narrator is handled. In the book the narrator is a man that travels to Starkfield …showed first 75 words of 582 total…

…showed last 75 words of 582 total…care of Mattie and Ethan, and now Mattie is bitter and needs help. The movie does a good job of showing how Mattie has aged and how she has lost her sense of life. The book and the movie Ethan Frome have many differences, but these differences are done well for a book that contains little dialog. The atmosphere of the Ethan Frome story still remains intact, eventhough the movie is not quite as good.