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Eveline
In an interview William Faulkner spoke of "A Rose for Emily" as a tale that had an allegorical title, meaning that in his story ...here was a woman who has experienced... an irrevocable tragedy...
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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
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
Mr. Hill is angry when he finds out about the relationship between Frank and his daughter, Eveline. He forbids Eveline to see Frank, and he warns her about 'sailor chaps.' Shortly after, Mr. Hill...
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Eveline
Before looking at how James Joyce depicts Dubliners in his short story "Eveline," it helps to look at how he envisions the inhabitants of Dublin in his short story collection (Dubliners) as a...
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Eveline
After her moment of what Joyce calls "spiritual paralysis," Eveline's life will most likely be one of what Thoreau termed "quiet desperation." As Eveline experiences terror at the last moment...
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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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Eveline
In "Eveline," the title character, her brothers, and the neighborhood children used to worry about her father and how he'd "hunt them...with his blackthorn stick" while playing in the field. This...
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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
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 a young woman torn between staying at her stifling Dublin home and escaping with her lover, Frank, to the unknown. Her life at home is hard; she has many obligations to fulfill on a...
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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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Miss Brill
In Katherine Mansfield's short story "Miss Brill" and James Joyce's short story "Eveline," both protagonists are heartbroken by their present circumstances. In contrast, Eveline has a chance to...
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Eveline
Eveline is conflicted. She has the opportunity to start a new life with Frank in Buenos Ares. This promises to be a much better life than her mother experienced. Eveline will be escaping a bitter...
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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
"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
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
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
I'm not sure if this is simply the assignment you have been given, but I would resist ever thinking of stories as having a single point or theme. Joyce, like most great authors, creates believable...
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Eveline
The fusion of reality and fantasy in "Eveline" reflects the protagonist's inner dilemma -- should she succumb to her oppressive daily routine or should she summon her courage, embrace a sense of...
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Eveline
In James Joyce's "Eveline," there are several instances in which the title character exhibits hopelessness, no more so than the beginning of the story when she looks out her window like an...
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Eveline
James Joyce is clever in how he writes "Eveline," as he makes it appear that leaving to "Buenos Ayres" with Frank would be the heroic thing to do. However, as in all the stories in Dubliners, the...
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Eveline
There is a certain aura of stagnation, death, defeat, and paralysis in the setting of "Eveline." Eveline Hill sits listlessly at the window with the funereal smell of "dusty cretonne" as she stares...
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A&P
One way that you can begin an analysis paper on these three stories is with an observation of how the surroundings in which person is immersed affects her or him. This observation aligns with what...
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Eveline
Joyce carefully chose the names for the characters in the story "Eveline" and many other stories in Dubliners because he wanted to attach symbolism and irony to his characters, so that they are not...
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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 history is one of repression; moreover, what Joyce defines as paralysis propels the story of "Eveline." And, it is because of this paralysis that Eveline cannot bring herself to elope...
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Eveline
"Eveline" is a story in which the protagonist struggles to make a choice out of the two options that both present no satisfying solution. Namely, Eveline is a 19-year-old woman, who is presented as...
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Eveline
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
In general, the setting of James Joyce's "Eveline" takes place in Dublin at either the end of the 1890s or the beginning of the 1900s. More specifically, the bulk of the story takes place by a...
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Eveline
In James Joyce's story "Eveline," Eveline's father forbids her from having anything to do with Frank because, as he says, "I know these sailor chaps." There are two ways in which this can be...
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Eveline
Eveline is about a nineteen-year-old girl who wishes to escape from the suffocating atmosphere of her present life. Although it seems like she finds escape from her Dublin life unavoidable, her...
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Eveline
“Eveline” was the second story of the volume that Joyce wrote, and it was first published on September 10th, 1904, in the issue of the "Irish Homestead" (Fargnoli and Gillespie 52). As far as...
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Eveline
Both Joyce's short story "Eveline" and Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet are about star-crossed lovers. Eveline lives in near-poverty, working with her father to care for the home and provide money,...
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Eveline
Possessing a face bronzed by the life of a sailor, Frank is a lodger at a house that Eveline passes on the main road. She finds him "kind, open-hearted, and manly"; he is fond of music and often...
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Eveline
There are two types of violence Eveline's father is doing to her in the short story "Eveline." One type of violence is the threat of physical harm, while the other type is an emotional violence...
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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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Eveline
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
Most simply put, the setting of any story is the time and place in which a story unfolds. However, in a larger sense, setting also refers to a story's overall greater environment and establishes...
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Eveline
Eveline's life is certainly one of repression at home and insignificance at work. The opening scene conveys the melancholy of Eveline as she sits watching the evening "invade the avenue." She leans...
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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
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
"Eveline" is one of the short stories from James Joyce's Dubliners series. Eveline is tired of her life. She is only nineteen but already the weight of her duties and responsibilities, and the...
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Eveline
Eveline's mother is no longer alive. Eveline has become the woman of the house, essentially assuming all the responsibilities of her late mother. She feels a duty to uphold and continue those...
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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
Consider all of the prompts (emotional, familial, psychological) that prevent Eveline from making the decision to leave home. Eveline is weighing the pros and cons of leaving home. It is a...
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Eveline
Eveline is one of the short stories in the Dubliners collection by James Joyce. The opening line, "She sat at the window watching the evening invade the avenue," prepares the reader for Eveline's...
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Eveline
Eveline one of the stories from Dubliners, relates the story of Eveline, a typical, young, Irish-Catholic girl unable to escape her past or dream of a different future. James Joyce knew this...
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Eveline
The street organ and its sound (or music) have a special place in James Joyce’s Eveline (Dubliners). As we know, Eveline Hill, the central character of the story, is in a state of dilemma. She...
