Eveline by James Joyce

      Eveline is about a girl who while looking out of a window in her house, she recalls all her childhood moments, some good and even some bad including the situation with his father with who she lives with since she was a kid. Eveline has a hard life because she has to work a lot to support herself and her father; and that’s when she faces a dilemma: remain home with his father and continue her life like that, or leave Dublin with his lover called Frank.

Frank wanted Eveline to marry him and go to live to Buenos Aires and Eveline agrees, but then her father starts to disapprove Frank and therefore, Eveline and Frank start to meet secretly.

When she find herself analyzing whether to go away with Frank or stay home, she analyzes two letters, one to her father, and one to her brother Harry, with whom she spent a really good childhood and she recalls promising her mother that she would always maintain their home, but then she hears the sound of a street organ and remembers the sad life of her mother and decides to leave with Frank.

When the moment to leave finally arrives, Eveline finds herself preoccupied and overwhelmed and at the end of all, she stays in Dublin.

  I actually liked this story, because Eveline was in a situation that everyone goes through at some point in life, when we are between two decisions, one that you’re dying to accomplish and that you would do for yourself, and the other that includes family or other people that matters to you and at the end you put others first and you end up feeling sad and with regrets. I never expected it to end like that.