What are some examples of personification in Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton?

This is novel is rich in imagery, and sometimes
personfication adds to the picture that is created for the reader.  Personficaiton is
the assigning of human qualites or abilities to non-human things, and this figurative
language helps the reader better picture what is being
described.

Here is an example from the opening frame
chapter.  When the narrator is telling what the Frome house looked like, he desrcibes
the run-down and worn-out conditions, claiming that "the thin wooden walls . . . seemed
to shiver in the wind."  Obviously walls can't shiver, but the image of walls that are
shivering or moving subtly with the wind enhance the fragile and broken condition of the
house, especially in the snowy and windy weather.

Another
example is when Ethan and Mattie are together in Chapter 4 and the narrator explains
that they "had stood there with such a thirst for each other in their hearts."  They
aren't literally thirsty, and a heart can't be thirsty, but everyone understands what it
feels like to be thirsty -- to want to beverage to sooth a dry throat or a parched
mouth.  It can be a singularly intense instinctual need, and that is what is being
conveyed here about how they feel about each other.