Possible Clues:

• Wharton hero
• Wharton's Ethan
• Wharton title character
• Wharton character
• ''Ethan ___''
• Somerset town
• Edith Wharton's 'Ethan ___'
• "The most striking figure in Starkfield," in a Wharton classic
• Wharton protagonist
• Ethan of literature