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Moral Fiction in Ethan Frome
Title: Moral Fiction in Ethan Frome
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 654 | Pages: 2.8 (approximately 235 words/page)
Moral Fiction in Ethan Frome
John Gardner’s “On Moral Fiction”
John Gardner’s “On Moral Fiction” is a fine example of fictional analysis. After reading the excerpt assigned in class, I was in awe at the truth and reality presented. I had never thought of morality in that sense and found it to be truly inspiring. True morality is just and comes from the heart. Morality found in novels, more like fashionable morality, comes from the head and is …showed first 75 words of 654 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 654 total…human fulfillment. He does so by the kind of analysis of characters and the things they do that brings both writer and reader to understanding, sympathy, and love for human possibility. Because so much present-day fiction fails to be moral in this sense, it undermines our experience of literature and our faith in ourselves. However, Ethan Frome is an exception to these works because it underlines all the important facets in literature and moral fiction.
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