Ethan Frome

Zeena just whines a lot. Zeena has never used the dish, even when company has come over, and she is mad with grief and rage: "You're a bad girl, Mattie Silver, and I always known it. It's the way your father begun, and I was warned of it when I took you,k and I tried to keep my things where you couldn't get at 'em ­ and now you've took from me the one I cared for most of all" ( 70). She leaves the room with the pickle-dish's shattered remains, acting as if she "carried a dead body" (70).