When Ethan Frome lost control of his life, from Edith Whartons novel

When Ethan Frome lost control of his life, from Edith Whartons novel I believe Ethan Frome lost control of his life when his mother died.After his mother's funeral, Ethan did not want to be left alone on the farm,so he asked Zeena to stay with him. At first, Ethan enjoys her company.However, Zeena soon becomes a nuisance to Ethan, and prevents him frombecoming an engineer in a large city. After being married a year, Zeenabecomes sick herself, and the only time she talks to Ethan is to complain orshow her discontent.After Mattie comes to the farm, Ethan does not love Zeena at all. Hethinks the only pleasure she has left is to inflict pain on him. Since Zeenais a burden on Ethan, he naturally wants to improve his life. The reason hedoes not have control of his life is because he is married to Zeena, and heis not brave enough to go away with Mattie.English: Ethan HigbeeThe reason he is married to Zeenais because his mother died. Since Zeena is why Ethan does not have control ofhis life, and Ethan married her because his mother died, the point in timewhen Ethan lost control of his life is when his mother died.I believe Ethan could have changed the direction of his life if he hadgone away from the farm to marry Mattie. The reason he did not have controlof his life was because he was married to Zeena. If he would have marriedMattie and left Zeena, he would not have been in the sled accident, andconsequently, he would have lived a much happier life with Mattie.The second way Ethan could have changed the direction of his life is ifhe would have sold the farm and never have married Zeena. This would havesaved him many years of problems and unhappiness. He would never have metMattie, which means he would never have injured himself in the sled accident.If he would have lived in another town besides Starkfield, he might have beenan engineer and married a woman who would treat him better than Zeena everdid.