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Eveline
James Joyce's "Eveline" is a story that centers around a dilemma (and in that context, I think its primary conflict should be understood as one of person vs. self). However, at the same time,...
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Eveline
The question of whether or not Frank is real or imagined in James Joyce’s short story “Eveline,” (from Dubliners) may be plausibly argued either way. I would recommend you reread the story...
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Eveline
James Joyce's "Eveline" evinces aspects of Modernism with a theme about social conditions, the internal monologue, and the open-ending. As one of the stories from The Dubliners, "Eveline" reflects...
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Eveline
The name Eveline means "little, or small, Eve" which is Hebrew for "life." Of course, the connotations associated with the name Eve are those of the first woman who tempted her mate Adam with the...
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Eveline
This is an interesting consideration. Moral Paralysis is widely used as a political term; it typically refers to a condition of countries and governments, rather than individual people. The term...
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Eveline
Eveline and Frank have an interesting, unclear relationship. We learn early on that Eveline seeks escape. The death of her mother has left her as the sole caretaker of her father, and her one...
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Eveline
The story is told from Eveline's point of view. However, it isn't a straightforward relating of events; we are inside her head, reading her thoughts. Eveline's story is told by the battle of her...
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Eveline
As Eveline sits at the window, watching "the evening invade the avenue, she reflects upon how the neighborhood once was. Considering her departure, she recalls that she has never learned the name...
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Eveline
In James Joyce's short story "Eveline", Eveline's brother Harry, a minor character who never appears in person, is described as being "in the church decorating business". He travels up and down the...
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Eveline
James Joyce's story "Eveline" depicts the tragic dilemma of a young woman trapped in a life that seems beyond her control, and although she has a chance to leave her home, she surrenders...
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The entire quote to which you are referring is this: “She set her white face to him, passive, like a helpless animal. Her eyes gave him no sign of love or farewell or recognition.” At this...
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Eveline
James Joyce in Dubliners depicts the misery of living a paralyzed life devoid of happiness. Eveline is one of his characters who has a chance at a new life but chooses to remain paralyzed. Spending...
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Eveline
James Joyce's "Eveline" is a compelling and strange story that offers little explanation for its own ending. Throughout most of the story, we sift through a description of Eveline's dull and...
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Eveline
Certainly, religious allusions play a large part in the paralysis of Eveline, who is haunted by her promises to the Blessed Margaret Mary Alacoque, a beatified nun who introduced devotion to the...
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Eveline
Although "Eveline" is written in third-person, James Joyce employs a technique known as free-indirect discourse, which allows the narrator to channel the title character's thoughts and emotions....
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Eveline
As well as toiling away at home, performing a never-ending series of chores, Eveline has a regular job. She works as a shopgirl at the Stores. We don't find out an awful lot about Eveline's...
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Eveline
It might be said that the overwhelming characteristic, or tone, of Eveline's youthful memories in james Joyce's short story "Eveline" is mournfulness. There are bright spots, such as when as...
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Eveline
Eveline's father is not a good father in any sense of the word. Eveline's memories and anecdotes about him all surround his drunken and abusive behavior. The first incident the reader learns about...
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Eveline
In the short story "Eveline," James Joyce describes Eveline through indirect characterization. Indirect characterization is a method by which the reader is made a participant in the life and...
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Eveline
Eveline is part of James Joyce's Dubliners, a collection of short stories that document the contemporary lives of the inhabitants of Dublin while simultaneously depicting themes related to aging...
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Eveline
James Joyce wrote of his native Ireland from an exceedingly bleak perspective. The poverty and greyness of the British Isles and of Ireland lend his writing a realism and darkness that, combined...
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Eveline
James Joyce's short story "Eveline" is a simple but powerful story with a fairly straightforward structure. Basically, the story can be broken up into two basic sections: a lengthy portion of...
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Eveline
"Eveline" is the last story in James Joyce's The Dead that contains an epiphany, or a sudden realization within the character. It begins with Eveline's contemplation of the life she plans to leave:...
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Eveline
This is a tough question, partly because there is no clear answer. One of the enduring confusions about James Joyce's "Eveline" is the protagonist's unwillingness to leave with her lover, Frank,...
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Eveline
There are two main sections that develop the plot in James Joyce's short story "Eveline." The first section (which also occupies the most physical "space" within the story) focuses on an interior...
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Eveline
As she sits looking out of the window, it is clear that Eveline is experiencing a massive internal conflict as she contemplates leaving her life and home and staying in the same stiflying,...
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Eveline
In the short story Eveline by James Joyce, Eveline is faced with a critical decision. She has decided, age nineteen, to escape her life of duty and hardship that has little prospect for improvement...
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Eveline
Eveline's observations and memories suggest that her father is not a positive figure in her life. He does not contribute to her well-being, and his violent nature and drunkenness, among other...
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In the notes that are attached to each of the stories, the Stores connotes the shop in which she works. And, there was a Quaker family named Pin who owned a general dry goods store in Great...
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Eveline
A few more bits of information about exposition: It is usually in the first few paragraphs of a story, providing the necessary background information. It sets the scene, establishes the...
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Eveline
For such a short story, James Joyce's "Eveline" grapples with many vital aspects of contemporary society. In this post, I'll focus on the societal aspect that I find to be most prevalent in the...
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Eveline's mother has been an abused woman; however, there is some unconscious identification with the mother on the part of Eveline as she fears violence from her father, and she is certainly...
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Eveline
As usual, it's difficult to pinpoint a single "point" in any work of literature. However, if one were to talk about the point of James Joyce's "Eveline," then it would be most accurate to say that...
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Eveline
While there are four different ways in which authors develop their characters using indirection characterization-- through a physical description through the thoughts of the character through...
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Eveline
Eveline is one of "the tragic Irish." Caught in a repressive environment to which she eventually surrenders pitiably, Eveline feels trapped. Looming over Eveline is the yellowing photograph of the...
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Eveline
Eveline's father falls into the stereotype of a drunk. Not only is he is a drunkard, but he is also abusive to his children, perhaps retaliating against them for his misery because of the death of...
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Eveline
In the short story Eveline, part of a collection contained in Dubliners by James Joyce, Eveline is the main character who has an enormous life-changing decision to make. Choices define the future...
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Eveline
In a way, it certainly foreshadows the situation Eveline finds herself in as the story closes. In the first paragraph she is alone and staring out a window - perhaps looking out upon the world...
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Eveline
In James Joyce's "Eveline," the title character notices the dust in her home. This dust is one of the major symbolic elements of this story. Throughout the opening pages of the story, including the...
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That's a bit of a tenuous connection, but I can see why you might consider that - the boyfriend in the short story "Eveline" by James Joyce might well not have Eveline's best intersts at heart and...
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Eveline
In the exposition of Joyce's story, Eveline is described during her interior monologue as "over nineteen." This age is significant as it is the opportune time for her to leave home and become a...
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Eveline
In James Joyce's "Eveline," from his short story collection, Dubliners, Eveline is faced with a decision. Since her mother died she plays the role of mother to both her younger brother and her...
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Eveline
James Joyce's "Eveline" is a story written as an internal monologue of the main character who finds herself in a quandary: she does not know whether to flee her home, trusting her life with a...
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Eveline
"Eveline" by James Joyce is told from a third person point of view: She had consented to go away, to leave her home. Was that wise? She tried to weigh each side of the question. In her home anyway...
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Eveline
At the end of James Joyce's "Eveline," Eveline suddenly realizes that she is unwilling to leave her life in Dublin for a life of international travel and true love. This realization is also known...
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Eveline
Ultimately, Eveline stays in Dublin because of the call of duty that she is forced to heed, thanks to the epiphany she experiences in the final section of the story. This call of duty is something...
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Eveline
Eveline has been left a lot of responsibility at so young an age. She made promises to her mother to look after her father and two small children. She also works outside the home. Both her boss and...
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Eveline
The relationship between Eveline and her father is clearly an abusive one, and it does very much reflect the expectations of how women were treated and expected to behave in 20th Century Ireland....
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Eveline
The unknown priest appears to be significant for his absence. As a representative of the Catholic Church, a powerful influence in Eveline's Ireland, he is remembered only from a "yellowing...
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Eveline
Eveline must decide whether to abandon her father and begin a new life with Frank. Eveline's decision is most crucial. If she flees, she is spiting tradition, her duties to her family and a promise...
