... Yet Joyce's selection of imagery seems to suggest and hint towards the path that Eveline would eventually take. Her past life, which is depicted to be a "black mass with illumined portholes", "blew a long mournful whistle into the mist" and hinted for her to give it a second chance. The dramatic imagery of the ... heart" clearly represent that she is pressed and torn between a decision that she does not want to make. Similarly, in "The Sisters", a young boy copes with the loss of a dear friend in a disturbingly uncaring way. The child immerses himself in several games; as if it would a...

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