... getting married. "But in her new home, in a distant unknown country, it would not be like that. Then she would be married "she, Eveline" (Joyce115). We also never learn her mother's name either, although Joyce tells us both of her brothers' names. When Frank departs at the boat dock ... window curtains and in her nostrils was the odor of dusty cretonne" (Joyce 113). Joyce's kinesthetic imagery enables the reader to easily experience sympathy and feel Eveline's fear and anger. "Even now, though she was over nineteen, she sometimes felt herself in danger of her father's violence. She knew...

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... 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 truly loved her and cared about her needs. Joyce opens the story with ... Eveline remembering old neighbors like "the Waters" (4) who have since escaped east to England because they were not opposed to leaving their home. She looks forward ... "herself in danger of her father's violence" (Joyce 4). She wants to escape her father's abuse and leave her life that is filled with n...

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... uphold her promise to her deceased mother of keeping the home together for as long as she can. Hindered by her father's selfish and self-centered ways, Eveline is torn between the anguish of leaving home, her strong duties to her family, and the promise-filled "new life" she is bound to have. She stands ... and paralyzed when forced to make a decision which is ultimately the decision of choosing the life that is best for her. For most of her life, Eveline has been the backbone of her home. She dusts day after day, keeping the house together to the best of her ability. Like dust, she is ...

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... sometimes for the best. Sacrificial decisions are tough but we should make them for the ones we love. In James Joyce's "Eveline", Eveline is faced with a tough decision. Eveline's mother and older brother passed away when she was just a child. She made a promise to her mom that she would never ... father who is an abusive drunk and two siblings younger that she is basically the mother of now. Eveline although met a man named Frank and has plans of leaving Dublin with him. Eveline sees this as an opportunity to get out of her domestic problems doing all the motherly duties, and ... worki...

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... brother, mother and a good friend, Tizzie Dunn, in her 19 years of life in Dublin. The death of her mother was especially prominent in Eveline's decisive uncertainty on this evening. Guilt comes over her as she recalls the organ player that had disturbed their family the last night her mother ... direct violation of her promise. This is initially perceivable as a noble feeling of guilt, but Joyce downplays the emotion by tainting the reader's impression of Eveline's mother. Her mother is described as having had a rather unpleasant life. The author implies that she had not married, at lea...

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... promise to keep the home together as long as she could." (Joyce 32) How is it possible for one to not follow out a parent's last wish? Eveline's mother's last request was for her to take care of the family. That is a great responsibility to be put into a child's hands. Everyone deserves a ... chance to be happy, so why did she go along with something that would only continue to make her life miserable? Eveline felt tangled knowing that it was all up to her to keep the family together, and to support her father, so she decides to stay. "She ... go, because she just did not know what her...

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... what drove here to stay with her family in the end. Another word would be hardworking, which seem to have been her nature throughout the book. Eveline's devotion to her family really impressed me. She was so true to making sure everything at home was right, even though most of the time she ... money to go to the market and buy Sunday dinner, even if it was intentionally done she would go and do it and fast as she could. Eveline would return to home late still having important duties to finish up, but again that was her nature, also making that promise to her mother she couldn ... 't br...

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... of her father's violence (Joyce 4)." Ironically, her father has "begun to threaten her and say what he"d do to her only for her dead mother's sake (Joyce 5)." Eveline wants a new life but is afraid to let go of her past. She dreams of a place where "people would treat her with respect (Joyce 4)" and when contemplating ... As she reflects on her past she discovers "now that she was about to leave it she did not find it a wholly undesirable life (Joyce 5)." Eveline wants to keep the deathbed pledge made to her mother but is alarmed at the prospect of sharing her mother's fate. Her mother w...

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... her memories for reasons to stay. Through the story's theme of "fear of change" as well Joyce's word choice and literary devices, Eveline's character of indecisiveness and reluctance to move on is developed. Her fickle nature is revealed by her tendency to dismiss the bad in her life ... hard work", and "It was hard work – a hard life" all effectively force the adjective into the reader's view of Eveline's life. Eveline also feels compelled to stay by the promise she made to her late mother to keep the family together. However, this conflicts with her desire to ... to "keep the fami...

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... can't say I entirely understand that statement. Joyce called these moments "epiphanies- but of the two stories, his ending was less like an epiphany than "Eveline's-. Eveline's story is one you hear of often but never consider to be a conflict. Leaving home is something that all children must do when they reach a ... been more favorable then her current living situation. She let's her family step all over her and take advantage of her. In my opinion Eveline stayed at home because she was scared but she lets herself believe it's because of a "promise to her mother, her promise to keep ......

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... love him, but simply wants to escape. However, although she wants to escape, she decides to stay because of her fear of going into the unknown. Eveline at first seems very excited to leave her home. She does not feel that anyone in Dublin respects her and cares for her. Joyce portrays this by not ... even mentioning her name, Eveline, until the thought of moving to an unknown country with a man that she is to marry. At home, she has no protector from her father; one ... that is far away from the home. With no savior from the threatening behavior of her father, moving away with Frank see...

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a) Eveline has been given a chance to escape. But in the end, the girl finds herself incapable of going. Certainly, she has every reason to leave. The ... keeps her wages. Rather than appreciate her work, he ridicules her. Mostly the circumstances of her family make Eveline want to escape. b) Eveline's father is a shadowy but menacing bully who has ruined her mother's life and is set to ruin hers. Eveline's father is the repressive authority in her life. She is helpless to break away from him. c) The ... bad. She is trapped in an ugly situation, responsible for her siblings and the aging fat...

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... to buy her materialistic goods from a bazaar, and when he does not achieve this, he becomes enraged, and a feeling of helplessness is induced. "Eveline" conveys how the domineering nature of society and family can draw one to flee their own country seeking of refuge from this very oppressiveness. Finally, & ... helplessness, as his chances, however small they may have been to begin with, with Mangan's sister faded away. The short story of "Eveline" portrays a similar sense of helplessness and the oppression of society and how these can lead someone to want to "flee" away from ... with h...

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... , and for Gabriel snow silenced the truth, and its presence muted whatever he did not want to hear. James Joyce has similar themes in his other Dubliner stories "Araby" and "Eveline". Both of which involve the protagonist of the story to have an epiphany of some sort in relation to the people around them. The young boy, in the story "Araby ... love for a mysterious girl was "driven and derided by vanity"(30). His image of a perfect love, like Gabriel's, was shattered by his realization that it was nothing more than lust. "Eveline" is about a girl who uses love to find an escape from her ...

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