Referat Eveline

_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 6 or 7 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