Eveline

Eveline

Evelines Thoughts

Past

her mother was alive a pretty good childhood

she used to play
her father wwas not so bad then
__________

the death of her mother; her promise to her mother to take care about the familiy

Present

She has to take care of the family

Her father is wild sometimes a live of commonplace sacrifices
many friends leave (alltägliche Aufopferung)
her work is not good (at hte stores)
__________

Frank is courting her

Futur

marriage
have a family in Buenos Aires
a home waiting for her a promise of a better life
a kind, loving husband

Action takes place inside Eveline's head

Symbolism in "Eveline"

odour of dusty - death
cretonne - deafening (Taubheit)
window - she only looks at her life
broken harmonium - no harmony in her life
yellowing photograph - past, decay
north wall - cold, no way out

ship - hope for a new life
Buenos Aires - "good air"
Frank - freedom (Frank = "frei")

Why does Eveline not go?

Eveline's reaction is completely irrational. Her major feeling is her fear of what might be in the future.

James Joyce

1882 * Dublin (eldest of "16 or 17 children")
goes to Jesuit College and Dublin University
1904 leaves Ireland forever together with Nora Barnacle for Paris
live in Paris and Triest
1908 "Dubliners" is published
1916 "The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man."
1921 "Ulysses" is published
1936 last book "Finnegans Wake" is published; lives in Zurich
1941 he dies

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