To the impartial reader the decision seems easily conquered; choose the escape, choose to get out on your own, but to Eveline things are much more complicated.
Seemingly right in the middle of her nostalgic journey she makes the statement, "everything changes."(114) To the first time reader it may just seem to be an answer to her surroundings changing and she, herself being forced to remain the same. Of course this is one of Joyce's first utilizations of foreshadowing. He is giving the savvy reader the first glimpse at what is to come at the end of the story. Next Eveline reverts to thinking about her own home, which she's unsure about. She claims that she doesn't know the name of the priest that is pictured above her mantle, and when she states that she has never dreamed of being divided from the objects she has dusted and taken care of her whole life, she is starting to take a turn towards the conclusion. At this point she begins to analyze her decision. She wonders if it was wise to consent to leave her home, and she starts to consider what all she is leaving behind. Eveline realizes she is getting away from the bad but she is also getting ready to abandon all of the good. Then she remembers the Stores where she works for Miss Gavan, and how disrespectful she had been to her all the years they had worked with together. She realizes she would definitely not miss that part of her life. Yet again everything changes. The reader is starting to catch on perhaps. No matter what Eveline is thinking at the spur of the moment she is decidedly not sure of what she really wants.
Eveline then introduces the main reason why she wants to get away so badly. Her father has a temper and he has never been the same since her mother died. Eveline is left to take care of him on her own and she is now the sole recipient of his cutting jabs and remarks. She is the one who brings home the bacon and she hates to be responsible for her father since he does not appreciate how much she does.
Eveline lives at home with her father and does everything for him. ... Everything changes. ... This shows that people have come and gone, but Eveline has stayed throughout everything. ... Eveline was afraid of all of these changes. ... Eveline wants to go through one of the biggest changes any person could go through-- moving to another country and leaving behind everything she has known all her life. ...
Gaffney Comp & Lit 2 June 9, 2002 "Cathedral- and "Eveline- The endings of "Cathedral- by Raymond Carver and "Eveline- by James Joyce have been called moments of realization. ... She was scared to leave everything she'd ever known behind, thousands of miles away, but anyone in her place would have probably felt the same way. ... After the narrator spends some time with Robert, the blind man who is visiting his wife, he starts to change his opinions about this man. ... From the moment his wife pulls up to the house with Robert this change in him begins. He never thought a blin...
In his short story "Eveline," James Joyce introduces us to the life of a young woman named Eveline. Given the opportunity to finally start a new life with Frank, the man she likes, from a life of horror, she doesn't seem to stand a chance to leave everything behind. ... Imagining a scenario where an abusive boyfriend attacks his girlfriend; She then obviously wants to leave, but she doesn't because she thinks that her boyfriend is able to change, therefore she's stuck in her own trap. This situation is like Eveline's life. Eveline's life is abusive; given the...
In the story "Eveline", Eveline finds love with a man called Frank. ... Both Emily and Eveline are resistant to change. ... Similarly, Eveline does not like change. ... Although Eveline could have a much easier and happy life, she is afraid to start a new life full of change. ... Their fathers have controlled everything they have done. ...
It is becoming increasingly difficult to get away from the materialistic facets of the ever-changing society we live in today. ... This recurring theme of conformity shows why society will always be prone to change, and why it always will. ... Eveline tells the story of a young girl, beaten and abused by her father and brother. ... The story of Eveline shows how the nature of society can lead someone to nearly "flee" from it all, wanting to leave everything behind. ... " (Joyce, 204) Gabriel conveys this message in hopes that they may one day go back to these days of ignora...
At a very young age, Eveline takes note of the involvement of games in everyday life, specifically in the days of her childhood. ... Life seemed so much simpler to Eveline back then but "that was a long time ago; she and her brothers sand sisters were all grown up her mother was dead. ... Everything changes" and thus leads to her desire to obtain that same sense of simplicity in her present life as "now she was going to go away like the others, to leave her home." ... (Eveline) In this eventful and vivid depiction of the game that Eveline is finding extremely overwhelming to control, sh...
However, before everything is settled, there are crises at every corner you turn, making for a very comedic piece. ... Overall, the elements of the play consist mostly of the rules of Murphy's Law, "everything that can go wrong will go wrong." ... I will now describe the characteristics of each of the main characters, categorizing them as flat (only one or two major traits), minor stock, our round (many-sided and changing). ... He thinks that everyone is on the same level as him in everything, and furthermore thinks everyone takes him seriously. ... I can relate this story to "Eveline"...