Ethan Frome falls in love with his wife's caretaker, but it all ends in tragedy.
A little heavy handed from my modern viewpoint. The symbolism of the cat taking the wife's place while Ethan consorts with the caretaker is particularly obvious. And the commitment of the two to commit suicide? That's a little tough to swallow. It seems to me that the caretaker had other choices, if she was as pretty as Wharton implied. In other words, I don't think the novel convinced me that two had enough motivation to make the fateful decision they did.
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