Read the passage. from Ethan Frome
I had the story, bit by bit from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story.
If you know Starkfield, Massachusetts, you know the post-office. If you know the post-office you must have seen Ethan Frome drive up to it.
drop the reins on his hollow-backed bay and drag himself across the brick pavement to the white colonnade: and you must have asked who he was.
It was there that, several years ago, I saw him for the first time; and the sight pulled me up sharp. Even then he was the most striking figure
in Starkfield, though he was but the ruin of a man. It was not so much his great height that marked him, for the "natives" were easily singled out by
their lank longitude... it was the careless powerful look he had There was something bleak and unapproachable in his face, and he was so
stiffened and grizzled that I took him for an old man and was surprised to hear that he was not more than fifty-two. I had this from Harmon Gow,
who had driven the stage from Bettsbridge to Starkfield in pre-trolley days and knew the chronicle of all the families on his line.
"He's looked that way ever since he had his smash-up; and that's twenty-four years ago come next February." Harmon threw out between
reminiscent pauses.
(from Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton)
Whose point of view best helps the reader to picture Ethan Frome?
01. the former stage driver, who reveals Ethan's accident
2. the narrator, who recalls her first impressions of Ethan
O 3. various people in Starkfield, who tell stories about Ethan
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4. residents who have seen Ethan drive up to the post-office
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