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Indeed, unmistakably, Ethan Frome (1911) inspired Peters’ character Jim Creech and plenty of the plot lines. Some components differ; Zeena is barren but Lu bore three children; contrary to Frome, but as the author’s ancestor (!), Creech is a blacksmith. Sure enough, the Ethan Frome drama takes place between 1890 and 1900; almost seventy years after the time in which Peters’ story is framed: Before the first wheel of the Merrimack Manufacturing Company was set in motion, and while the canal was frozen solid, Middlesex Village was much like Wharton’s isolated Starkfield. Lucretia is Zenobia; her cousin Mindy is Matty. The Widow Adair is the widowed Mrs. Ned Hale.
Other parallels are plentiful, including the unique design and attitude and its distinctions; regarding basic individual a third, omniscient individual.