Moral Fiction in Ethan Frome
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 thus untrue to the heart. In “On Moral Fiction,” Gardner is arguing that literature should consist of fiction that leads to life instead of despair. I absolutely agree with his passage, which could easily be applied to Edith Wharton’s Ethan Frome.Gardner discusses how essential character is to moral fiction, since it is through our understanding of character in action that we come to understand the truth of fiction. Ethan Frome’s morality is shown throughout the novel as an apathetic one, in which he goes with the flow instead of thinking with his
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