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The Dubliners ' Are The Boarding House And Eveline

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The stories I choose to write about in James Joyce book the Dubliners; are the Boarding House and Eveline. As a reader, I found that though the characters Polly and Eveline situations and events that have occurred in their lives are different yet they are also similar. On one hand we have Eveline that lives with her abusive father, her mother has died and her siblings are all grown up and have moved away, left to deal with her father alone. She works at a store where she is tired and feels trapped. Eveline is like most of us; wanting to be loved, to have a family, and to escape from a city that seems to be smothering her in hopes of having a better life, to feel free and alive. She meets a sailor by the name of Frank, Frank is kind, manly, and open hearted, nothing like her father. Eveline must meet Frank in secret for her father did not approve of their relationship because he thought that all sailors just wanted to take advantage of the young girls and never ask their hand in marriage, However Frank proved to be different. Frank did want to marry Evelin; she thought Frank would save her from this unhappiness and from this paralyzing city. Joyce takes us (the reader) to a place in Eveline life where she is remembering the death of her mother and how her mother suffered and how delirious her mother sickness made her at the end. Evelin is thinking about the death of mother when Joyce writes, “As she mused the pitiful vision of her mother’s life laid its spell on the very

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