... her from leaving. The first reason comes from the attachment to her environment. At a glance the idea of attachment does not make sense because Eveline lives with her abusive father who constantly accuses her of stealing and threatens her with beatings. He demands money from her all of the time while ... . Her head was leaned against the window curtains and in her nostrils was the odor of dusty cretonne. She was tired." This describes how Eveline feels about her life; she is not happy, she is tired, and she hopes for something new. However, while in the debate of her ... but has seen wh...

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... a ghost story when she was sick and that when she was younger how that he had put on her mothers bonnet to make them laugh (Joyce 526). When Eveline meets Frank, she realizes that with him she could escape her world and that she could begin a new life of adventure and excitement. When her father finds out ... She was scared that the love she might have for Frank would smut out the love she had for her father in the end. The third point is home Eveline's home is one of the most important things in her life. She likes the things that are familiar to her. She realizes the things that are im...

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... 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 of maintaining her home she is a bit confused about the ... choice she is about to make. Eveline 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 ... treated as her mother had been" (4). Her mother passed away with only one wish: "a promise to keep...

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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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... had some happy memories from her childhood, she still felt as if she 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 ... of. Any time a visitor would come to their home, her father would pass the photo wording a "Casual" comment that "He is in Melbourne." Eveline was afraid to leave her father behind, because she was already looked down upon and disrespected in the community; she didn't want her father to be ...

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... opinion, decisions would be much easier to make if you could look into the future and view what the outcome of your decision will be. The main character, Eveline, has a very important choice to make. The difficult dilemma that she is faced with, is to remain at home with her father like she promised her mother ... juggling jobs as a nanny and a store worker to provide and support her and her father. Frank could free her from the hard life that she is living. Eveline was infatuated with Frank; he was a sailor that she was eager to start a live with. He decided that he wanted to marry her ...

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... run off with Frank to the unknown world, eventually she would have regretted her act. I noticed the pressure and impatience of Frank towards Eveline. He was maybe too rough on Eveline in order to accelerate her decision; letting her the time to think of her situation and think of what is more important to her ... because she isnt sure whether she is truly in love with Frank; there again we can feel insecurity from 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 ...

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