... a new country to get married. Eveline believes that Franks is fun and exciting, but she does not know if she loves him. The way that Eveline describes Frank makes it almost sound that he is too good to be true. He could have married her than left her; she then would have regretted that she left ... feels secure with the people and the things that surround her. She also knows that if she stays home then she will be provided for. If she leaves with Frank, then there is no telling what would really happen to her. Even though she gives most of her money to her father, she always has food, sh...

• Word Count: 1079
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

... , she was given the opportunity to leave the family and start a family of her own. Although Eveline is miserable with her life, she runs from Frank with no love in her eyes and remembers the promise that she had made. Some people think that she did the right thing in keeping her promise, ... while others think that she did not have enough courage to go with Frank. Though both opinions are relevant, it is strongly apparent that Eveline is a coward for her actions. She ran away from the only person that ... who was rejected by the town people and "living a life of commonplace sacrifices c...

• Word Count: 943
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

... her to the choice she makes, but eventually the author creates a symbolic that Eveline's attachment to her father, her home and the unfamiliarity of her lover Frank are also major factors which help her to decide the outcome. The first of many determining factors for Eveline's choice to stay is the implication that she ... 's mother made to her descends into her mind, and she becomes fearful of leaving her father and her home for the pleasure that awaits her and Frank in Buenos Ayres. Because of all the different memories and thoughts, Eveline is obviously troubled in her decision to stay...

• Word Count: 1206
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... reader to the life of a young woman named Eveline. In the story, the narrator tells the reader that Eveline is about to elope to a man named Frank, the man she thinks she loves, and run away to a far away country to escape her dusty, monotonous life. Instead, she decides to stay in the ... to stay, one must analyze the reasons that prevent Eveline from pursuing a better life. Her fear of the unknown, the fact that does not know Frank well enough, and the many attachments she has to her deceased mother prompt Eveline to make her decision. The first reason for Eveline to stay is that ... a...

• Word Count: 863
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

... words and actions. He depends on her for everything, and shows her no affection. She has a chance to move away from all of this with a man (Frank) she feels would make her life happier. What is Eveline to do? Knowing she has this chance to leave her unhappy contolling life as well as the responsibility ... is so insecure about her choice for the future she is unsure what will make her happy, secure, and fearless; her father is a very intimidating man and Frank on the other hand is very loving and joyful, time is running out it's now or never for Eveline's choice to be made. Eveline's cur...

• Word Count: 792
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

... but to pour emotions into someone like that says a lot. Right now Eveline could only hope this is a dream come true for her, to hear how Frank cares so much for her and how he wants to take her away with him to a better life. Having been through abusive situations by her father, Eveline ... makes the right decision by staying with her family rather than leaving with frank. The problems that Eveline had faced in her house made her decision to leave with Frank very questionable. You see Eveline just wanted to be treated normal by her father, but because of his violent ... nature, didn't m...

• Word Count: 603
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

... take her to live with him in Buenos Ayres where he had a home waiting for her. Secretly, Eveline agreed to leave with him by the night-boat. Frank could be her lifesaver, he would be her reason to escape and also give her life and love along the way. She believes that she has the right ... not want to end up like her. She strongly embraces her decision to escape the same fate by packing up all her belongings and leaving with her love, Frank. At the end of the story, Eveline makes the choice to stay with her father. I agree with her decision because even if she did go off and ... live h...

• Word Count: 637
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

... although she was given a "Load of provisions," her hard work around the house wasn't ever noticed. He disregarded her feelings by forbidding her to see Frank the one person who showed her life and was willing to her love. Nevertheless, she feels obligated to care for her father. Her father was growing ... was trapped and wanted to "Escape." As an unmarried woman in Dublin, Eveline was looked down upon on and disrespected. The thought of leaving with Frank would give her life of happiness that she deserves. However, she contemplated her decision based on her past. She wasn't ready to let...

• Word Count: 827
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

... the suffocating life. But her father forbids her to see him, probably because of the stereotype image of sailors. Finally she decides to elope with Frank, which seems to be the only solution of all. Eveline lived a hard life, arduous, boring and hopeless. But she still thinks that she ... a cage, with invisible bars, whereas the inner self longs for freedom. The conflict between this two are intense and central to the human survival. Frank's exoticism fascinates Eveline and wins her heart. Than is true of human behavior to some extent. People like things sometime because they are differe...

• Word Count: 1136
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

... keep the house together. The period of time in this short story is one evening. Eveline is about to make the biggest decision of her life. She has a special friend Frank, who is a sailor and has a home in Buenos Ayres. He wants to marry Eveline and take her with him to Argentina. Basically the story is about Eveline's thoughts about her ... strong emotional family ties. To make Eveline's struggle even harder the author describes the alternative to go with Frank positively. There is nothing negative about Eveline's thoughts about the future with Frank. He is kind, manly, open-hearted and...

• Word Count: 846
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

... keep the house together. The period of time in this short story is one evening. Eveline is about to make the biggest decision of her life. She has a special friend Frank, who is a sailor and has a home in Buenos Ayres. He wants to marry Eveline and take her with him to Argentina. Basically the story is about Eveline's thoughts about her ... strong emotional family ties. To make Eveline's struggle even harder the author describes the alternative to go with Frank positively. There is nothing negative about Eveline's thoughts about the future with Frank. He is kind, manly, open-hearted and...

• Word Count: 846
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

... young woman torn between duty and desire, the known and unknown. The main character, Eveline, has to decide if she should seize the opportunity to escape with Frank to Buenos Ayres in search of a new life, or uphold her promise to her deceased mother of keeping the home together for as long as she can ... her decision she is to make, but she also thinks about her "new life" for a very brief moment compared to her present life. Though she loves Frank, it is a difficult relationship due to the fact that her father forbids her in seeing him after the two men were involved in an argument. "I...

• Word Count: 789
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

... insecure of what to decide and that she doesnt know the danger waiting her outside her house. Also, if she would feel more secured with Frank in an all new world or staying with her parents c Love would be the parallel to security because she isnt sure whether she is truly in love ... her. Here are two scenes presented to Eveline: would it be more reasonable to decide to stay with her family or to leave with frank? If she had chosen to leave with Frank, that would had been entirely a new version of ending because there is no going back to your family after you left; you can ... come ...

• Word Count: 610
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

... keep the house together. The period of time in this short story is one evening. Eveline is about to make the biggest decision of her life. She has a special friend Frank, who is a sailor and has a home in Buenos Ayres. He wants to marry Eveline and take her with him to Argentina. Basically the story is about Eveline's thoughts about her ... strong emotional family ties. To make Eveline's struggle even harder the author describes the alternative to go with Frank positively. There is nothing negative about Eveline's thoughts about the future with Frank. He is kind, manly, open-hearted and...

• Word Count: 852
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

... her environment and is unable to change. This sheltering life causes her to make the last minute decision of staying home instead of running away to Buenos Aires with Frank. There is some fear in Eveline, but most of the reason why she is staying is because Shiozuki 2 she just cannot change. Eveline's environment will never ... Eveline knows that she was going to have a different routine and it scared her. She would not be cleaning, working, and even cooking everyday in Buenos Aires. Frank would care for her everyday unlike her father. Eveline also has a very boring life at home. She was...

• Word Count: 1067
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

... She wants to believe that moving to a distant, unknown, and new world would give her a pleasant life, and she may even fall in love with Frank. This false love for Frank is her problem that causes her to stay. Why does she stay is the question that so puzzles me. I have two ideas upon this question of behavior ... . One belief I hold is that since Eveline does not love Frank, she chooses to stay home in fear of being trapped in a world that is far worse than the one she is presently in. She may feel that her ... , she decides to stay home instead of pursuing an unrevealed life. My other t...

• Word Count: 518
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

... laws do not apply to her. She refuses to pay taxes and kills a man she loves. In the story "Eveline", Eveline finds love with a man called Frank. He asks her to leave Ireland and come to Buenos Aires with him. She has to make the decision to stay at home or to start a new life with ... Frank. Emily and Eveline's relationship with their fathers makes it very difficult for them to find love. Emily's father is a very wealthy man and he feels that no ... her father dies. In the same way, Eveline's father does not want her to be with Frank. "One day he had quarreled with Frank and after that...

• Word Count: 716
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

... different conflicts involving herself, her family, the promise she made to her late mother, and the man she supposedly wants to spend the rest of her life with, Frank. In the beginning of the story, Eveline is said to be staring out her window looking at the objects passing by. This gives her a way to clear ... it right to leave her father? Is she betraying the promise that she made to her mother on her deathbed? Does she or will she ever love Frank? Eveline knows that the life that she has with her father will never make her happy. She has taken on all the responsibilities of running a...

• Word Count: 780
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

... don't foresee. In his short story "Eveline," James Joyce introduces us to the life of a young woman named Eveline. Given the opportunity to finally start a new life with Frank, the man she likes, from a life of horror, she doesn't seem to stand a chance to leave everything behind. What appears to be an imperceptive decision; Eveline, a young confused woman, seems ... seems as though she thinks it could change in the future. Eveline's debate revolves choosing a life either with her father or Frank. She tells herself that life with father cannot be as frightening as a risky, unknown life ...

• Word Count: 993
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

... enters a set of games in which she wanders back and forth, like a tennis ball from one side of the court to the other, between her two choices - a new life with Frank or returning to her burdensome life with her family. She stood among the swaying crowd in the station at the North Wall Through the wide doors of the sheds she ... her husband and daughter, gesticulating them", refraining from giving up, even until the last moment "she stood still for an instant like an angry stone image, and when the first notes of the song struck her ear, she caught up her daughter's cloak wrapped the cl...

• Word Count: 1686
• Approx Pages: 7

... and sadly, her mother has passed. Eveline is filled with many mixed emotions because she wants to move on and leave Ireland forever with her fiancé Frank; however, because of a promise made to her mother before she died, Eveline feels obligated to stay and take care of the house, her siblings, ... beat her like he did her brothers; he does often threaten her with violence and with her brothers gone, there is no one to protect her. Frank is a sailor with a home in Buenos Ayres, who loves and treats her with great respect and tenderness and entertains her with stories from his travels. ....

• Word Count: 1122
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

... to accept her environment because she feels responsible to "keep the family together." But she is intrigued by this new man in her life, Frank. Joyce's word choice in describing Eveline's relationship with Frank and the idea of a new life where she will finally find happiness betrays the true nature of her feelings. "She consented to go away" ... all it had been an excitement for her to have a fellow" leaves the reader to infer that she has little experience with romance. She is more so infatuated with Frank, a fresh and exciting part of her life, than in love and serious about a ne...

• Word Count: 628
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

... to leave far behind, was becoming not so wholly undesirable. The reader begins to realize what makes her possibility at an alternate life so enticing. Frank, the sailor, brings something into Eveline's life that she has never experienced. She sits in an "unaccustomed part of the theatre"(116) with him, ... her father doesn't respect Frank's profession, and it is altogether a whole different lifestyle than she is used to. She has the chance to get away from the mundane and everyday ... remembered her mother's sacrifices to the family and to her husband even more specifically. Eveline, in...

• Word Count: 1281
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

... afraid to let go of her past. She dreams of a place where "people would treat her with respect (Joyce 4)" and when contemplating her future, hopes "to explore a new life with Frank (Joyce 5)." When, in a moment of terror she realizes that "she must escape (Joyce 6)," it seems to steel her determination to make a new home for herself elsewhere. On the other hand ... prays "to god to direct her, to show her what was her duty (Joyce 6)." Eveline thinks she loves Frank but is apprehensive about her future with him. She likes Frank; she thinks he "was very kind, manly, open-hearted (Joyce 5)...

• Word Count: 665
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

... misery and passiveness her mother did because of her manipulative father. The psychological abuse induced by her father is made apparent by her strong desire to start a new life with Frank, her psychological messiah. However, because of her obligations to her family, and the seed of insecurity blooming inside of her planted by her father, she ultimately becomes overwhelmed and denies ... mother constantly makes condescending remarks comparing her and her sister as desperate attempts to make Connie feel like less than she is. Eveline was drawn to Frank because he seemed to have sincere f...

• Word Count: 534
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School