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

* Dublin (eldest of '16 or 17 children')

goes to Jesuit College and Dublin University

leaves Ireland forever together with Nora Barnacle for Paris

live in Paris and Triest

'Dubliners' is published

'The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.'

'Ulysses' is published

last book 'Finnegans Wake' is published; lives in Zurich

he dies