Essay about Character Analysis of James Joyce' Eveline

Eveline falls in love with a young man named Frank, whom held all the qualities that she had ever dreamed of. He was "very kind, manly, open-hearted" (Joyce 1558), opposite of her father, and presented her with a feeling of cherishment she never experienced before. " Frank would save her..give her life, perhaps love too" (Joyce 1559) and was the literal passageway to the life she hoped for. Although she wants to believe that she does deserve the right to be happy, she is overwhelmed with guilt in leaving all that she ever cared about behind. She finds it difficult to break her mother's dying wish of remaining an obedient daughter and to stop being the caretaker of the family.

whether he is lying or telling the truth, because she has no way to confirm

Because of this, she started to miss her friends and teachers at the Moss,’ especially her best friend Mandy, even though she was treated badly. She also started to worry about the new place that she was going because of her past experiences. Being with a better family was so new to her that it was hard to face reality that she actually had people who cared for her. Going

A Motif is a recurring structure, contrast, or literary device. An epiphany is a sudden realization of the meaning of something. The characters in the short stories of "Dubliners", by James Joyce, undergo great and small epiphanies. These epiphanies aren't the sudden realization of new experiences and possibilities for reform, but instead they give the characters a better understanding of their circumstances. In "Araby" and “The Dead” the endings conclude with epiphanies that the characters fully comprehend, yet these epiphanies are touched with frustration, sadness, and regret.

Eveline was treated differently from her siblings, Harry and Ernest, because she didn't have a mother that could protect her from her father. When Eveline decided to leave with Frank, she changed her mind. Why would she refuse the opportunity of happiness over her lifetime with her father? It was because Eveline made a promise with her mother, to care for her father. For example, if your comrade was injured during a mission, but you must complete the mission without anyone slowing you down, what should you do? Finish the mission without your comrade, or abandon the mission and save your comrade? Obito Uchiha, from the anime Naruto, quoted "Those who break the rules are scum, but those who abandon their friends are worse than scum." People may

She still “doesn’t know” what to do with her life and seems to be exploring the possibilities. She feels uncomfortable around Doreen sometimes because she is kind of the “third wheel” when Doreen is with her men. She confides in Betsy’s sweetness, but finds her rather

Trapped in a world where mental anguish imprisons her, Eveline is another of James Joyce's paralyzed souls. Her life is full of ups and downs. Every day she struggles with burdens that she should not have to bear and when the opportunity comes for her to get away from this retched life, she denies herself the chance. The reasons why I feel Eveline did not leave for Buenos Aires with Frank is because she was obligated to her family, she was afraid of the unknown and she did not know how to receive love.

She moves away from the family she is living with because the father of the family tries to get her to stop which she does not

Gwennie, like Evadne, struggles with overcoming a past of being sexually abused, not by a stranger or distant relative, but by her father. Once leaving Guyana she never returned, not even when hearing of the death of her mother. Explaining to the narrator,

In “Eveline”, Eveline is a 19 years old girl with tedious and miserable life. Despite her chance to start a new life with Frank in Bueno Ayres, she bail out from the opportunity and continue her suffering life, therefore loses her chance of being content. On the other hand, Calixta from the “Storm” was able to fulfill her lust; the basic, instinctual drives personality that is present from birth.

“James, get your sister we’re leaving soon,” my mother shouted. We were leaving our camp of Neinmeyer to go to California since we heard what had happened to the camp near us. My sister, Rose, was out playing in the mud. She did not want to move and neither did I, but I also did not want to be a bother to Mother. Mother had to leave too and that meant she would lose a good paying job which is rare to find especially for a woman, but she did not want to risk our safety so we left.

She begins to realize that her whole life has been anything but her own. From living with her father under his rule to marrying

In order to solve the paradox of Eveline, Joyce uses sentence structure to show the importance of various characters to Eveline. The father in Eveline is given a lengthy amount of the story and longer sentences. Sentences such as “He said she used to squander the money, … he was usually fairly bad on Saturday night.” (Joyce 65-68), and “When they were growing up he had never gone for her … for her dead mother 's sake.” (55-58) contain forty words and forty eight words respectfully. Frank at the beginning is given slightly longer sentences at his first introduction. The third sentence in Frank’s introduction, “She was to go away with him by the night-boat to be his wife and to live with him in Buenos Ayres where he had a home waiting for her.” (80-82), is thirty words long. As the story progresses Frank’s sentences becoming increasingly shorter and shorter. After Eveline remembers her father caring for

The unknown things of what Eveline leaving would do ultimately made her not want to leave with frank. Eveline said, “Through the wide doors of the sheds she caught a glimpse of the black mass of the boat, lying

The unknown things of what Eveline leaving would do ultimately made her not want to leave with frank. Eveline said, “Through the wide doors of the sheds she caught a glimpse of the black mass of the boat, lying in