Ivonne López Andrade

Urania Del Carmen

Sergio David González Rodríguez
Carlos Rivas Ruiz
Alejandro Lara García
The Narrator

 Eveline is written from a third person point of view.

“omniscient narrator”

Because it means that he influences us about how we feel with Eveline

How did you feel about Eveline choise at the end of the story?
 Structure
two basic sections

The first section takes up most of the story

The second section the immediate action takes place

 Plot
Is about a woman who has to take care of her father ,but she is unhappy
because she made a promise to her mother before she died.
“keep the home together as long as she could."
Conflict Comparison
She felt in love with a sailor  She promised to her dead
mother that she will take care of
her father and brothers
 Rising Action

She remembered her mother voice saying

“ Deravaun Seraun! Deravaun Seraun!”
And she felt that that was the signal for her to scape
Climax : It does not have

Falling Action : It does not have

Anti-Climax :
She stayed with her family
It occurs when Eveline decides do not to board the ship while Frank shouts
"Come!“.
 Setting
The story takes place sometime during the late 1880´s and maybe early
1900´s In a town of Ireland in an old room ,
Eveline was living in a social environment of strict adherence to tradition
and obedience

In the story another important setting is eveline´s room .

“The room is filled with "the odor of dusty cretonne" from the curtains, and
has a "yellowing photograph hung on the wall above the broken
harmonium”.

.The station at the port .

Characters
Eveline
 Eveline
 «she sat at the window watching the evening invade the avenue. Her head was leaned against the windiw
curtains, and in her nostrils was th odour of dusty cretonne. She was tired».

 «She had consented to go away, to leave her home. Was that wise? She tried to weigh each side of the
question. In her home anyway she had shelter and food.»

 «What would they say of her in the Stores when they found out that she had run away with a fellow?»

 «The promise to her mom, her promise to keep the home together as long as she could».

 «She prayed to God to direct her, to show her what was her duty.»

 «She gripped with both hands at the iron railing».

 She set her white face to him, passive, like a helpless animal. Her eyes gave him no sign of love or

 Farewell or recognition».
 Eveline´s father
 «He was usually fairly bad on Saturday nigh.»

 «When they were growing up he had never gone for her, like he used to
go for Harry and Ernest, because she was a gir; but latterly he had
begun to threaten her and say what he would do to her only for her
dead mother’s sake.»

 «Her father had found out the affair and had forbidden her to have
anything to say to Frank.»

 «Her father was becoming old lately, she noticed; he would miss her.»
 Frank
 He was a sailor.

 «She was to go away with him by the night-boat to be his wife and to
live with him in Buenos Ayre, where he had a home waiting for her.»

 «He used to meet her outside the Stores every evening and see her
home.»

 «Eveline! Ewy! He rushed beyond the barrier and called to her to follow.»
 Eveline´s mother

 She is dead

 She was the most influential figure for Eveline.

 She asked to Eveline to keep the home together as long as she could.
 The man from Belfast

 The Devines, the Waters, the Dunns, little Keogh the cripple and Eveline’s
brothers and sisters.

 Miss Gavan

 Ernest and Harry

 The man who was playing the street organ.

 Subject
Society from Ireland :
Ireland has endured waves of emigration ,Many left their native land to
seek a better life elsewhere.
Ireland was a British colony and the Northern Protestants controlled the
economy of the country. Catholic families often faced hardship. Alcoholism
and abuse, as portrayed in “Eveline” were common. As a result, many of
the Irish looked for escape.

. Stream of Consciousness:
the description of Eveline’s thoughts and emotions dominate
 Theme
Our inability to break out of situations

Eveline can see the emptiness of her life and knows she must escape - the
word is emphasized twice with exclamation marks but she didn’t have the
courage to do it.

Some interpretations go much further and see Eveline as a symbol of

Ireland under British rule and basically more comfortable that way than
trying to become an independent nation.
 Similie
She set her white face to him, passive, like a helpless animal.
 Symbol
-She was to go away with him by the night-boat to be his wile and to live
with him in Buenos Ayres, where he had a home waiting for her.
-If she went, to-morrow she would be on the sea with Frank, steaming
towards Buenos Ayres.
 Allusion
Catholic Church
Bibliography.

 http://www.enotes.com/homework-help/what-theme-eveline-by-james-
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http://www.articlemyriad.com/analysis-eveline-dubliners/