inst her has risen. Ethan’s longing for freedom is being weighed up against the fear of leaving Zeena all alone. Zeena even gives Ethan a clue that she wasn’t cared for, when she ’reflectively’ tells him about some geraniums that wasn’t cared for. Ethan has to decide from the economic hardship, social and moral obligations and everything that he has been trained to do from childhood for example caring and putting people before himself. All of these situations that have occurred has made the situation become intolerable for all three of them, this led to the ’smash up’. Ethan and Mattie realise that because they can’t be with each other because of these factors I have discussed they discide to end it together. Both Mattie and Ethan express their love for each other on the top of the slope, the first time that they actually kissed and expressed love for one another. They sooner realised ’what’s the good of either of [them] going anywheres without the other one now?’‘Some erratic impulse’ and their love drove them to try and commit suicide. Ethan suffered after the ’smash up’. He became ’the ruin of a man’ through his ’warped right side’ and ’red gash’ across Frome’s forehead. The accident scared both Mattie and Ethan for life and changed their life forever and with the mental factors for example the economic problems along with the last physical factor, the ’smash up’ has contributed to his tragic fate. ...
