Eveline




TITLE: Eveline

AUTHOR:"Eveline" is a short story by the Irish writer James Joyce. It was first published in 1904 by the journal Irish Homestead and later featured in his 1914 collection of short stories Dubliners.

CHARACTERS:

Frank meetsEveline on a visit to Dublin. Eveline describes him as “kind, manly, open-hearted” and likes hearing his stories about his travels. Frank begins walking Eveline home after she is finished working at the Stores and eventually starts courting her. He likes music and singing. 

 Eveline’s father was abusive to her siblings and mother, but spared Eveline when she was young since she was a girl. He used to go searching in the field for her and her siblings with a blackthorn stick to call them inside, and appears to be a figure feared by all of the neighborhood kids. 

 Eveline’s mother made a lot of sacrifices for her husband and family, and according to Eveline, didn’t receive respect from her peers and perhaps had a reputation for having a violent husband. She died of an unspecified illness, and was driven mad by her “life of commonplace sacrifices,” although it is unclear if her mental state is related to her death.

 The relationship between Eveline and the children she cares for is never stated, but she is their caretaker and she is in charge of feeding them and making sure they go to school.

 PLOT:
“Eveline” was the second story of the volume that Joyce wrote, and it was first published on September 10th, 1904, in the issue of the "Irish Homestead" (Fargnoli and Gillespie 52).
As far as the plot is concerned, there is not much happening in this story because the emphasis is on the mental struggle of the heroine, her thoughts, concerns and memories. The story is about a young woman, Eveline, who feels stifled by the monotonous routine of her Dublin life, household responsibilities, and her abusive father. Therefore, she seems to want to escape with Frank, the man she likes, to Argentina in order to start a new life. The whole story is about a dilemma related to what choice she should make. While she does find her present life utterly disappointing, running away to Argentina would entail saying goodbye to a sense of comfort and familiarity which her present life offers. However, if she decides to run away with Frank, she may find love and safety which she says she needs (she feels threatened by her abusive father), but that new experience may also be quite overwhelming for her, and she does not know what she will have to deal with.
When we finally think that Eveline has made a choice, given the fact that she agrees to come with Frank to board the boat which would take her to Argentina, we realize that she feels terrified to embark on a new journey, thinking that such a move would destroy her:
"All the seas of the world tumbled about her heart. He was drawing her into them: he would drown her."
The story ends on a gloomy note -- Eveline decides to stay in Dublin and is described as "passive, like a helpless animal," which clearly means that she is unable to change her life for the better, like the majority of characters in Dubliners.


STYLE:

Eveline is the title of the main character in the short story and it shows how she was affected by feminism during her life time. Joyce states that, “the feminist issues affecting Eveline are in her relationship with her boyfriend Frank, relatives, duties, obligations, and societal expectations” 

 THEME:
Main themes in Eveline. The main themes in Evelineare Paralysis, Epiphany, Stream of Consciousness and Irish Social Conditions and Emigration. Paralysis This sense of stagnation or paralysis is emphasized with the very words Joyce uses. The story “Eveline” presents an excellent example.

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