Eveline´s Decision in Eveline by James Joyce :: essays research papers

In the short story Eveline by James Joyce, Eveline, the hotshot is given the opportunity to escape from her hard unendurable life at home and live a life of true happiness at Buenos Ayres with Frank, her lover. Throughout the story, Eveline is faced with a few good memories of her past from her childishness and her mother, but she also faces the horrible flash jeopardizes of her mothers illness and her military chaplains violence. In the end, she does not leave with Frank, Evelines indecisiveness and the burden of her familys duties makes her stay.     By not taking that opportunity, Eveline probably missed a life of exploration with Frank. Eveline would have had the chance to know what independence feels wish and she would have had the chance to experience individual freedom. Instead, her life afterwards is a life of regret and imprisonment with her family. Being an only child, she is bound by her familys actions and their duties. Eveline has taken on an i ncredible part of the burden in keeping the family together. Her father is an overbearing and unfair man who takes his daughters earnings for himself and sort of than appreciating her sacrifices, he ridicules her. As she now lives with her dad and her two brothers, she feels tired and foiled with her dads commands and her everyday life. Everyday, she sadly waits for frank to come back into her life once again and fill her life with happiness. Eveline may possibily in the future live her freedom when her controlling father passes away, but possibly it will become too late for her to experience the freedom she wanted.