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Inevitable Fate? Inevitable Fate? "Eveline" by James Joyce is a short
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Inevitable Fate?
"Eveline" by James Joyce is a short story of a young woman with a tragic past who is given an opportunity to escape Ireland and her bleak future. Before Eveline's mother died, she made a promise to her to keep the househould intact. Since then, she has been in constant fear of her father's physical as well as verbal abuse. Her life is filled with thankless monotonous duties.
Then she meets a young sailor named Frank who promises to take her away and give her a home in Buenos Aires. Eveline has to make a life altering decision. Will she leave to a brighter future or will she continue to be ruled by her past and stay in Ireland? Joyce uses the characterization of Eveline as fearful, dutiful, and ambivalent to show that Eveline could not to escape Ireland or her tragic fate.
One way that Joyce shows that Eveline will not escape Ireland is his depiction of her as an essentially fearful and timid character. She is constantly under the duress of her father's violence. Joyce says, "...though she was over nineteen, she sometimes felt herself in danger of her father's violence" (433). Her father's threat of violence keeps her subservient and confined within her father's whims and wishes. She never stands up to him. This shows Eveline's timid nature. Because she is timid, we cannot conceive of her making the leap of faith to leave Ireland with Frank. We can see the great stress that her father's violence puts her in when Joyce says, "She knew it was that [her father's violence] that had given her the palpitations" (433). She is in so much fear that she has heart problems at the young age of nineteen. This foreshadows Eveline's tragic fate if she does not escape. Eveline will become like her mother and her life will be "commonplace sacrifices closing in final craziness" (434). Fearfulness is a common theme throughout the story when describing Eveline.
Eveline is not only afraid of her father's violence, but also afraid of...
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