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Wharton based her story on an accident that she had witnessed in Lenox, Massachusetts.^[2] The story of Ethan Frome had initially begun as a French-language composition that Wharton had to write while studying the language in Paris.^[3] It is among the few works by Wharton with a rural setting.^[2]