Eveline
James Joyce
This story first made me think of Eveline's psychological state. After a time of her father's abuse, her mother's death, and her hard life, she still finds her home hard to leave. "It was hard work- a hard life- but now that she was about to leave it she did not find it a wholly undesirable life" (Joyce, 220). Eveline finds it hard to leave her rough life for her love, Frank! What is interesting is how she is so dependent on her home life that is so destructive. I think this story was made to address humanity's problems with change. In fact, Eveline justifies staying by saying her father could be nice- sometimes. She convinces herself that life is better the way it always has been. When she's about to go off with Frank to Buenos Aires, she is not overjoyed to be changing her life so that she can live a better one with her love, but she thinks to herself that she would be "drowned" in the "seas of the world" (Joyce, 222). Her fear restrains her from having the beautiful life that she could.
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