In this novel, the protagonist's love interest first appears as an anonymous girl in a red scarf at a church dance.
In this novel, the protagonist's love interest first appears as an anonymous girl in a red scarf at a church dance. That girl rejects an advance by Denis Eady before the protagonist escorts her home. While the wife of this novel's title character is away seeing a doctor, her favorite pickle dish is broken. This story is told as a flashback, as the narrator tries to uncover details about a man injured in a "smash up" in Starkfield. That man is the husband of the invalid Zeena, but he falls in love with her cousin, Mattie Silver. For 10 points, name this novel by Edith Wharton in which the title character and his lover attempt to commit suicide by crashing a sled.
In this novel, the protagonist's love interest first appears as an anonymous girl in a red scarf at a church dance.
Ethan Frome