Eveline Joyce set up the collection to move from stories about childhood onto stories about adolescence and finally stories about mature life and public life, all within the confines of Ireland's big city. The text under interpretation is a bright example of a short story Joyce's "Eveline" was the advent between adolescence and maturity. The story's protagonist and title character, Eveline, is largely affected by the feminist issues of the time period. These feminist ideas are illustrated through Eveline's relationships with her family and boyfriend, as well the societal expectations, and her duties and obligations.Eveline is much like many young women in early twentieth century Ireland.
With her mother having passed, she is expected to take care of her childhood home. Joyce writes that Eveline struggled to keep "her promise to keep the home together as long as she could," a promise she made to her mother while on her deathbed. Speaking in terms of textual pragmatics Eveline's story is the shortest and the plot is pretty simple. The main point of this story in “Dubliners” by James Joyce rather seems to illustrate, through a short series of images and sensory details, the life of a common Dubliner.
She had hard work to keep the house together and to see that the two young children who had been left to her charge went to school regularly and got their meals regularly," Joyce writes. "It was hard work-a hard life. " It is never clear whom Eveline is taking care of, but it is clearly illustrated that she is unhappy in her assumed position of a housewife without a husband. Speaking In terms of functional stylistic the tone of the story, which mimics her voice, is sort of exaggerated and impulsive.
It's also overly sentimental when it comes to things like pictures of old friends of the family on the wall. Would a wiser or more emotionally mature person actually worry so much about his or her "familiar objects" if it came down to leaving? Maybe not. On the other hand, despite Eveline's obvious immaturity, her inability to make this decision makes a ton of sense. It's a pretty big decision, and she doesn't really know Frank all that well. Most of what she can say is that he is "very kind, manly, open-hearted" (Eveline.
10). Sounds great, but is that really enough to follow him across the world?What's really tragic about the story, then, is that Eveline is already at a disadvantage for making serious decisions (she's just not mature enough), and now she has to make one of the most serious decisions anyone could imagine. The collision of these two facts sets the stage for the climactic closing of the story, which takes place at the North Wall of Dublin, right in front of the ship to Argentina. James Joyce manages to not only depict characters as they seem, but also reveal their inner world that is hidden from surrounding people and characters.His story “Eveline” is characterized by a great deal of psychological tension and can be approached from a psychological point of view.
Viewing the story in this way helps the reader to better understand the story when they look at the conflict of Eveline’s life with her father, the relationship with Frank, and honoring a promise with her mother. In fact the story of Eveline is the story of a young woman who seems to be depressed and she is torn between her family and herself.From the very beginning of the story, she is clearly unhappy and suffers plenty. She is destitute by her father whom she is obviously afraid of. This is most likely the result of some psychological trauma she received in her childhood, for “even now, though she was over nineteen, she sometimes felt herself in danger of her father’s violence” (pg. 4) and she seems to have already suffered from act of violence from the part of her father in her childhood of which its consequences are still relevant when she has grown up.
The situation is getting even worse given that her father “had begun to threaten her and say what he would do to her only for her dead mother’s sake” (pg. 4). Even in the first flashback, when Eveline recalls her childhood, she clearly remembers how “her father used often to hunt them in out of the field with his blackthorn stick” (2). The father continues to deprive Eveline of a normal life even when she has grown up, just like with the rest of the family, namely Harry seeing as he and Eveline both have to give their ather money they have earned.
Speaking in terms of textual pragmatics there is a change of the mood in the paragraph, where the narrator represents Eveline to be an over sentimental person, not confident about herself. The reader gets this impression because the author uses phrases in exaggerated manner, for example, when speaking about her relationship with father - but latterly he had to begin to threaten her and say what he would do to her only for her dead mother s sake.Instead of saying he’ll harm her or he’ll make her feel bad , besides that - And now she had nobody to protect her - the invariable squabble for money on Saturday nights had begun to weary her unspeakably . The gradation of happenings mentioned in the same paragraph is made to emphasis the complexity of Eveline s situation. The reader could easily imagine a wholly undesirable life of Eveline as the narrator describes it using the following phrases - she had to rush out as quickly as she could she elbowed her way she had hard work it was hard work a hard life a wholly undesirable life.
The change of settings goes together with the change of mood in the next paragraph. Because of that the reader gets an image of another life with Frank happy life. Here again the narrator retells the story of Frank and Eveline like a kind of fairy tale for the reader to see that Eveline was wearing a pink glasses and treating her relationships with Frank like a survival from her wholly desirable life .The following phrases used here help to create an image of Frank to be a man of her dreams and to show that Eveline was not indifferent to him - She was to go away with him by the night-boat to be his wife and to live with him in Buenos Ayres, where he had a home waiting for her He was standing at the gate, his peaked cap pushed back on his head and his hair tumbled forward over a face of bronze she felt elated she always felt pleasantly confused .At the end of the same paragraph the narrator shows that the opinion of her father is more important to Eveline as he the narrator is not going too much in detail about her father’s and Frank’s relationship.
There are only three sentences about that of course, her father had found the affair and had forbidden her to have anything to say him. I know these sailor chaps, he said. One day he had quarreled with Frank, and after that she had to meet her lover secretly.
