Eveline is the fourth of fifteen stories included in Dubliners, a James Joyce's work published in

1914. The fifteen short stories follow the four phases of human life, from childhood through to
adolescence (to which Eveline belongs), maturity and public life.
The story takes its title from the name of the protagonist Eveline, a nineteen-year-old who lives in
Dublin.
The narration begins with the main character who sits by the window and starts thinking about her
happy childhood, but since then everything has changed: her mother and her brother Earnest died,
her father started acting bad, so she sacrifices her life to keep the family together like she promised
to her mother on her deathbed. Now she has the opportunity to change her life because of Frank, a
sailor who's in love with her and asked her to move to Buenos Aires with him. While she is thinking
about the right thing to do, she hears the street organ playing in the avenue, which reminds her of
her mother's last words "Deveraun Seraun" that convinces her to leave.
But while she's about to get on board she gets stuck and doesn't follow her lover, giving him no
explanation.