Ethan Frome. Las hermanas Bunner

"I learned what happened in several stages, from different people, and, as is often the case, with successive changes in the story each time it was told to me." In Ethan Frome, a man who has lived resigned to his fate, in the solitude of a house surrounded by snow, confronts the vertigo of an impossible love. In The Bunner Sisters, two women who take refuge in the routine of a haberdashery in the city see their world shaken by the unexpected arrival of a second chance. "From then on, the Bunner sisters found the monotonous routine of the shop intolerable, as well as their faded and interminable evenings around the lamp, and equally meaningless their habitual exchange of phrases accompanied by the dull hum of the sewing and serger machines."