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An Analysis Of James Joyce's Eveline - Term Papers

An Analysis Of James Joyce's Eveline

In the short story, “Eveline,” James Joyce introduces us to the
life of a young woman named Eveline. She has the opportunity to escape with
Frank, the man she thinks she loves, to a faraway country in search of a
new life. Instead, she decides to stay in the dreary and gloomy life she
already knows. To understand Eveline's final decision to stay we have to
analyze the reasons that prevent Eveline from pursuing a better life. Her
fear of the unknown; the fact that she does not know Frank well enough; and
the many attachments she has to her home, prompt Eveline to make her
decision.
The first reason for Eveline to stay is that she is does not have
the courage to leave. She tries to ...

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about her father look insignificant compared
to what she has to do for him. Eveline also has to support the
mistreatments of her abusive father even when she is asking him for money
to buy groceries. Especially on Saturday nights when he is “usually
fairly bad,” meaning he is drunk. Eveline alone asks herself if it is
wise to leave. She thinks that at her home she has “shelter and food; she
had those whom she had known all her life.” We know she does not feel
quite at home in her father's house. For example, after all these years,
she does not even know the name of the priest on a photograph in the house
she lives in.
Another reason for Eveline to stay is that she does not love Frank
enough to escape with him. She does not even know him well enough. What
Eveline knows about Frank is only what he tells her. Frank has “tales of
distant countries,” the word “tales” suggests that all is a false story.
Everything she knows about him is what he tells her. She does not ...

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Added: 7/28/2007 10:24:59 AM
Category: English
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