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    "Eveline" by James Joyce “Eveline” by James Joyce is a story about duty and family ties. The author introduces us to a young woman who is conflicted between her desire for freedom and the promise she has made to her dead mother. Throughout the story Eveline is perceived as a helpless animal caged in her own house by a tyrant father. Eveline faces a difficult dilemma: remain at home like a dutiful daughter‚ or leave Dublin with her lover‚ Frank‚ who is a sailor. We will see how the death played

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    Present: "Eveline" We begin James Joyce’s story of "Eveline" with the introduction to the protagonist‚ a girl who longs a different life. She spends the opening reflecting on her past memories‚ when she had happier times with her whole family. Then focuses on her work life; would leaving her job be wise or would it be worth what she’d receive afterwards? Eveline has a clear void in what used to be a life she enjoyed‚ but now finds lacking. A glimmer of hope shines through for Eveline when she recalls

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    Kristin Fox Cynthia Wesson English 120 Wednesday‚ June 13‚ 2013 Moving Forward In the story “Eveline” the word dust is used many times mostly in referring to the home for example when it says‚ “reviewing all of the familiar objects which she had dusted once a week for so many years‚ wondering where on earth all the dust had come from” (Joyce 3). The continual references to dirt in the house show the house being something old. Almost like when you walk into an old garage that no one goes in

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    elsewhere. The Irish were second-class citizens within their own nation; Ireland was a British colony and the Northern Protestants controlled the economy of the country. Catholic families often faced hardship. Alcoholism and abuse‚ as portrayed in “Eveline” were rampant. As a result‚ many of the Irish sought to escape James Joyce represents everyday life of Dublin in the early twentieth century in his collection of short stories‚ Dubliners. Dubliners consists of 15 stories and each of them unfolds

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    In James Joyce’s "Eveline‚" a young woman faces the difficult choice of taking a risk or remaining in safety. Eveline must choose between following her heart and impulsively following a man she barely knows or remaining with her family in a relatively uneventful and predictable life. Joyce uses several certain concepts‚ actions‚ and images such as dusting‚ names‚ and Joyce’s past to symbolize the true nature of the short story. Even the act of cleaning a house by dusting the many objects within

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    Eveline is a short story written by James Joyce. In the last paragraph of the story Joyce states that "She set her white face to him‚ passive‚ like a helpless animal. Her eyes gave him no sign of love or farewell or recognition" (7). This is the most powerful and important line in the story of Eveline. The line illustrates the reality of her life at home. The reality is that she feels "helpless" and thinks she has to stay and take care of her family and the house. The line shows how she is torn

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    Eveline Joyce set up the collection to move from stories about childhood onto stories about adolescence and finally stories about mature life and public life‚ all within the confines of Ireland’s big city. The text under interpretation is a bright example of a short story Joyce’s "Eveline" was the advent between adolescence and maturity. The story’s protagonist and title character‚ Eveline‚ is largely affected by the feminist issues of the time period. These feminist ideas are illustrated through

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    Eveline”- An Opportunity That Was Let Go “Eveline” is a short story out of the collection called the “Dubliners”‚ wrote by James Joyce. Joyce has written fifteen stories within “Dubliners”‚ all in which seem to follow the same pattern. Each story has it ’s own plot image. There tends to be four stages‚ that the plot goes through during each story; childhood‚ adolescence‚ mature life and public life. Joyce uses these stages as a symbolic representation. In this story of “Eveline‚” a teenager

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    September 2013 The promise to her mother keeps “Eveline” in Buenos Aryes In the short story “Eveline” James Joyce focuses on a girl who is very young in age‚ yet lives a busy and at times frustrating life. Eveline needs to make a choice to either stay in Buenos Aryes or try to start a new life someplace else. Eveline falls in love with a sailor named Frank‚ and he wants to take her with him. In Dennison’s essay “Fear of Failure in Joyce’s “Eveline” she is “telling herself that life with father

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    Joyce’s Eveline Human nature always compels us to make a decision sometimes for the best and others destroy us. Joyce’s story of “Eveline” describes a young lady who lives an unhappy life; though no matter how matter how hard she hopes and wishes she cannot find true happiness for her own self. Eveline struggles with the conflict churning within her heart; she’s feeling as if she is always being “walked on”. Her heart cries out for happiness. Joyce uses the internal conflict within Eveline to show

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