Part one of term paper
In the short story, “Eveline,” James Joyce introduces us to the life of a young woman named Eveline. She has the opportunity to escape with Frank, the man she thinks she loves, to a faraway country in search of a new life. Instead, she decides to stay in the dreary and gloomy life she already knows. To understand Eveline's final decisi ...

Part two of term paper
... leave. She tries to convince herself that her life is not “ wholly undesirable,” but Joyce reveals how hard and undesirable her life actually is when he tells us that she “felt herself in danger of her father's violence.” She gets “palpitations” because she is so afraid of her own father. Although he beats her and treats her badly, she still thinks that “sometimes he could be very nice,” just because she remembers him making her laugh once, and other time when he took care of ...