One character in this work brought home a battery she did not know how to use after a trip to a doctor at the expense of her husband.  The protagonist is at first jealous of Denis Eady, and later asks Andrew Hale for a loan, and begins to shave more regularly.  The main characters are contrasted with Ruth Varnum and Ned Hale, while the hired hand Jotham Powell refuses get 
One character in this work brought home a battery she did not know how to use after a trip to a doctor at the expense of her husband.  The protagonist is at first jealous of Denis Eady, and later asks Andrew Hale for a loan, and begins to shave more regularly.  The main characters are contrasted with Ruth Varnum and Ned Hale, while the hired hand Jotham Powell refuses get involved with the tensions involving a sickly wife and her Connecticut relative. Betraying his wife Zenobia, the protagonist runs a sled towards an elm tree, but stops short of killing himself and Mattie Silver.  FTP name this novel about a Starkfield man who falls in love with his wife's cousin, by Edith Wharton.
One character in this work brought home a battery she did not know how to use after a trip to a doctor at the expense of her husband.  
{Ethan Frome}