Ethan Frome works his unproductive farm and struggles to maintain a bearable existence with his difficult, suspicious and hypochondriac wife, Zeena. The classic novel of despair, forbidden emotions, and sexual undercurrents set against the austere New England countryside. It is also true his little known novel by the author of "The Age of Innocence" was also considered very controversial for its frank treatment of the above mentioned social issues. Published in 1907, it received positive but mixed reviews, and more recently critics have attempted to explain its uneven structure, which combines an industrial plot (Amherst's attempts to reform the mills), an ethical plot (the question of euthanasia) and the more conventional romance plot. "The Fruit of the Tree" is one of Edith Wharton's few novels to deal directly with issues such as euthanasia, the problems of labour and industrial conditions, and professions for women, as well as Wharton's more customary themes such as divorce. Edith Wharton was born Edith Newbold Jones on Januto George Frederic Jones and Lucretia Stevens Rhinelander at their brownstone at 14 West Twenty-third Street in New York City. Among her other well known works are The House of Mirth and the novella Ethan Frome. She was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1996.
In 1921, she became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize in Literature, for her novel The Age of Innocence.
Wharton drew upon her insider's knowledge of the upper class New York "aristocracy" to realistically portray the lives and morals of the Gilded Age. Edith Wharton was an American novelist, short story writer, and designer.
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