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Why is Eveline representative to Dubliners?

Evelyn makes no choices. At the end of the story she has a choice to make: she could run away with her boyfriend or stay at home and look after her father, just like she had promised to her mother. She decides to stay at home. This could seem Evelyn's choice, but it isn't. We can say that this is her mother's will. In the last lines of the novel Joyce says that she didn't move, she didn't showed emotions. Evelyn is a victim, a victim of a moral paralysis just like Dubliners.

Evelyn is a Catholic girl just like most Dubliners. She is a adolescence of the working class, this means she is poor, just like most Dubliners in the first part of the XX century.