Summary EVELINE

EVELINE – JAMES JOYCE
 TITLE
Name of the main character
About Eveline, her life ,her relationships – with her
father, siblings and Frank
Focus is about her suffering at the hands of her
father and her decision to make about her life.
 NARRATOR’S POINT OF VIEW
 Third person omniscient point of view .
 Allows reader tp know both the internal
development of the story in the mind of the
protagonist sand external development
 Action is told with a rhythmical remembrance
of the past to let the reader decide if the
protagonist is doing the right or wrong thing.
 SETTING
 Dublin, Ireland where Eveline grows up.
 During the early twentieth century
 THEMES
 Different forms of death
 Death is figurative and literal
 People that aren’t in Eveline’s life is
described as ‘they are no more’
 Life before her mother’s life was
better than now
 Also describes those who left Dublin
and never asserts her emotional
response to these happenings. People
die when they leave Dublin
 Fears that if she leaves Dublin , she
will bde considered dead

,  Fears in marriage it would be like
death , she will lose her identity and
will be no more
 Religion and keeping promises
 Reason for failing to escape is
because of her Catholic religion
 Catholicism beliefs enforces her to be
able to make sacrifices, promises and
to live in guilt
 Sacrifices her own happiness in order
to keep her promise which binds her
to her late mother
 Nostalgia
 Eveline’s thoughts about what it
means to be a ‘Dubliner’, make her
think of liberating herself by leaving
Dublin
 She feels that if she leaves , she will
have to start a new life and lose her
identity
 She is ready to sacrifice her life,
which is a reality but doesn’t want to
sacrifice her memories.
 Women and society
 Typical twentieth-century Dublin
women who faces the majority of the
problem that are usual to them
 Women had an inferior value to men.
Led to the oppression of women by
men. Women are controlled by men
and had no power