Eveline | Signs of Paralysis
Michael H. Lake, an English instructor in the Seattle, Washington area, examines the pervasive signs of paralysis that suffuse Joyce’s “Eveline.”
Many critics dwell on James Joyce’s use of “epiphany,” that is a “sudden spiritual manifestation whether in the vulgarity of speech or of gesture or in a memorable phase of the mind itself” (from Stephen Hero, an early version of Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man). In other words, the theme of epiphany in Joyce’s works functions much like what we now commonly refer to as a “Freudian slip,” a moment in which the motives or insights of the subconscious mind are revealed by word or gesture. Although this device is common in Dubliners, the idea of...
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