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
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
