You are Ethan. You have been married to Zeena for a year. Write your thoughts.

Mark scheme

Marking points from the official mark scheme (May/June 2010). The mark or mark type is shown in brackets.

1. A year is the time in which it has taken Zeena to reveal her true character and to show that the energy she showed during Ethan's mother's last illness was quite unusual.
2. He thought that she would enliven his life and enable him to escape his rural life.
3. Now the silence he married her to avoid has returned, Zeena has no desire to move and he is trapped for good.
4. Much of this disappointment will no doubt surface in the adequate answer and the better assumptions will communicate Ethan's growing despair as life closes down on him.