Betraying his wife Zenobia, the protagonist runs a sled towards an elm tree, but stops short of killing himself and Mattie Silver.  
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}