In Joyce's story "Eveline, " Joyce elaborates on the contradictions of duties to family and to self. Eveline is a conservative girl who grew up in Dublin with her brothers who eventually moved out and her abusive alcoholic father. She ends up meeting a man named Frank who is a traveler that intends to take Eveline with him when he leaves Dublin. Eveline fantasizes and gleams with excitement as she thinks about what life would be like leaving her home town in which she has personally overstayed her welcome. However, when she finally gets to the dock about to take off with Frank, Eveline fa...

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This form of paralysis is evident in the story "Eveline" in which a young woman is faced with the opportunity of leaving Dublin with her lover, Frank. ... Eveline realizes that leaving with Frank promises the possibility of a new life absent of the daily trials and suppressed dreams in Dublin, "she had a right to happiness. ... However, at the moment of departure Eveline begins to develop second thoughts. Although the promise of escape from Dublin is only steps away, Eveline is literally paralyzed and unable to get on the boat. ... Although Eveline realizes that remaining in Dublin sentenc...

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