Chapter 3 (spoiler alert)

The third chapter of Ethan Frome is a rather short one. Yet much conflict between Ethan and Zeena arouses here. Ethan wakes up in the morning and goes about his usual routine, and he recalls that the night before as soon as the door closes on them, they don't say another word to each other. And then of course Ethan spends much of the night thinking of Mattie, as well as in the morning. He thinks about how he thought she would hate life here, but she never expressed this feeling. Whereas Zeena had never liked it in Starkfield. All these things Ethan thinks about while he is working down at the wood-lot. And, Zeena must also go to the doctor once again, so she asks if Ethan's friend Jotham can drive her since Ethan has to work, and Zeena somehow takes it as an objection when Ethan doesn't immediately respond. Ethan agrees to Jotham taking her, and the whole time he is thinking of Mattie.