Essay about Character Analysis of James Joyce' Eveline

What are the most five important things that have happened to your character in his or her life so far?

Lastly, her family betrayed her by not listening to her side of the story after her sister told lies about her, and they betrayed her when they acted as if they did not care if she moved out of the house. In all of these actions, the family itself and certain members of the family are portrayed as uncaring, unsupportive, disrespectful, conniving, deceitful, and hateful to Sister. Through every action of the family, Sister is treated harshly, and she tries to not let this bother her. Yet, anger and bitterness build up inside of her until she cannot take it anymore. Consequently, it built up so much inside of her that it severely affected Sister so profoundly that she moved away from her home to get away from her family.

Eveline's internal struggle illustrates clearly how one struggles between the past and the future, leading to the failure to escape. While weighing her options as to whether or not leave Dublin, Eveline remembers her mother's wishes: "Her promise to her mother, her promise to keep the home together as long as she could" (Joyce 40). Even though Eveline's home contains an abusive father, absence of family members, and the struggles of domestic work, she is unable to let go. Awaiting her a promised adventurous and free spirited life with her respectful and kind lover, Frank. He has the ability to rescue Eveline from a troubling past and allow her to enter a new phase in her life, liberated from the ugliness of Dublin. However,

Eveline has begun to question her happiness. "Could she still draw back after all he had done for her?" (Joyce 33) She questions whether it is really better for her to go off with Frank and let him be her savior, but again, she declines. "No! No! No! It was impossible." (Joyce 33) Once again because she is so terrified of that which lies a mystery, she decides to stay with what she knows.

Both Dade and Julian where fixated on proving themselves right and defending their beliefs about

change in her life by moving with her boyfriend Frank from her homeland of Ireland and making a life with him in Buenos Ayres. Joyce illustrates that one of our most inherent qualities as humans and one that Eveline displays is that we are resistant to change. Through Eveline's relationships with her father, Frank and various peripheral relationships, Joyce demonstrates to us how Eveline has come to have certain beliefs about change.

James Joyce’s “Eveline” is a short story about a nineteen-year-old Eveline, who contemplates abandoning a life she is accustomed to and moving to a distant land with a man she hardly knows. In one hand she holds the weight of uncertain happiness, in the other, inevitable misery. Eveline needs to make a choice between two contrasting lives; one in which she is a servant to her father, in other, a respected wife. Following her mother’s death, Eveline assumes the role of a parent and inherits all the chores accompanying it. She works hard at home and “the Stores” (Joyce 74), but for all her troubles, Eveline gets little respect in return. Now with one brother dead and other away on business, she is left alone to keep the family together and

The tone of this story is one of fear, regret, and guilt. The story first leaves the reader with impression that it may be a recount of the life of a daughter who was lost due to neglect. Soon it is evident

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

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

Eveline is portrayed as a lonely girl who is longing for a deeper connection with a new life of her own. When Eveline thinks back to happy childhood memories of playing with friends, the happiness of those memories does not last long; “Her father used often to hunt them in out of the field with his blackthorn stick. Her father was not so bad then” (Joyce), Eveline says, suggesting that Eveline only remembers her father as being mean and negative. Thinking back to earlier memories he was better than he is at present day. Eveline was a child at the time. Therefore, she did not have all the responsibilities of a mother and wife. This

Thus in the end Eveline decided to stay in Dublin, her fear swallowed her up. However this isn’t a bad thing all together. It gave her the realization of what she truly wanted in the end, and just because she gave into her fears, it does not mean she won’t be happy where she stays.