14.

But in my new home, in a distant unknown country, it would not be like that. Then I would be married--me, Eveline. People would treat me with respect then. I would not be treated as my mother had been. Even now, though I was over nineteen, I sometimes felt myself in danger of my father's violence. I knew it was that that had given me the palpitations. When we were growing up he had never gone for me like he used to go for Harry and Ernest, because I was a girl but latterly he had begun to threaten me and say what he would do to me only for my dead mother's sake. And now I had nobody to protect me. Ernest was dead and Harry, who was in the church decorating business, was nearly always down somewhere in the country. Besides, the invariable squabble for money on Saturday nights had begun to weary my unspeakably. I always gave my entire wages--seven shillings--and Harry always sent up what he could but the trouble was to get any money from my father. He said I used to squander the money, that I had no head, that he wasn't going to give me his hard-earned money to throw about the streets, and much more, for he was usually fairly bad on Saturday night. In the end he would give me the money and ask me had I any intention of buying Sunday's dinner. Then I had to rush out as quickly as I could and do my marketing, holding my black leather purse tightly in my hand as I elbowed my way through the crowds and returning home late under my load of provisions. I had hard work to keep the house together and to see that the two young children who had been left to my charge went to school regularly and got their meals regularly. It was hard work--a hard life--but now that I was about to leave it I did not find it a wholly undesirable life. I was about to explore another life with Frank. Frank was very kind, manly, open-hearted. I was to go away with him by the night-boat to be his wife and to live with him in Buenos Ayres where he had a home waiting for me. How well I remembered the first time I had seen him; he was lodging in a house on the main road where I used to visit. It seemed a few weeks ago. He was standing at the gate, his peaked cap pushed back on his head and his hair tumbled forward over a face of bronze. Then we had come to know each other.

15.

• - We don't know Eveline's father name.
• - The father is usually seen from Eveline's point of view since she uses many qualifying adjectives for him, without giving us a physical descriptions of him.

So far, the narrator tells us the following items about Eveline's father: personality, family, social class, habits, likes and dislikes, opinions and feelings about other characters, what other characters think of him, some experience, what he does and says and thinks on particular situations.

16.

"Her father used often to hunt them in out of the field with his blackthorn stick"

a) He is recalled when Eveline, together with her brothers and sisters, and other children were playing in the field

b) Eveline's point of view

c) The verb "hunt" and the noun "stick" are significant because they give us the idea of her father's violence

d) The stick evokes a feeling of fear.

e) I share her feelings.

"when he saw her father coming"

a) He is recalled when Eveline, together with her brothers and sisters, and other children were playing in the field

b) Eveline's point of view

c) The verb "come" is significant because he gives us the idea of something which might imminently occurring.

d) A feeling of fear

e) I share her feelings.

"Her father was not so bad then"

a) He is recalled when Eveline, together with her brothers and sisters, and other children were playing in the field

b) Eveline's point of view

c) The word "so" mitigates the strength of the adjective bad"

d) Eveline shows compassion for her father

e) I share her feelings.

"He had been a school friend of her father"

a) The priest is recalled when Eveline reviews all the familiar objects in the room

b) Eveline's point of view

c) The word "friend" is meaningful because it seems strange that her father has a friend.

d) Friendship

e) I share her feelings.

"He is in Melbourne now"

a) The priest is recalled any time a visitor comes to visit her father

b) Eveline's point of view

c) The word "now" shifts the point of view of the narrator/the reader from the memories to present

d) A feeling of non-past

e) I share her feelings.

17.

We do not know much about Eveline's mother though Eveline has beautiful memories about her. In lines 51-52, it is clear that her mother was not respected by people, while in lines 119-131 Eveline reminds herself of the promise she made to her mother, namely to keep the home together. Moreover she recalls the last night of her mother, a life of commonplace sacrifices which ended into final craziness.

18.

We know a lot of details about Frank because Eveline describes him as a very kind and open-hearted man with a face of bronze and tumbled hair over his face. Moreover he was very very fond of music and was a discreet singer; his career started as a deck boy but then he sailed many seas, even the most dangerous ones.

19.

time - 2 times

field - 4 times

play(ed) - 3 times

children - 2 times

houses - 3 times

little - 3 times

avenue - 1 time

brothers and sisters - 2 times

grown up - 2 times

father - 3 times

mother - 2 times

home - 1 time

dead - 2 times

- That impression is true because she is a simple girl and has a limited vocabulary.

21.

The language used by Eveline might make us think that the narrator criticizes the flights of rhetoric Eveline has when she thinks about Frank, namely because she really well remembers the first time she saw Frank and when she feels that he is her saver and that he would give her life and love. The use of the word "perhaps" shows us Eveline's uncertainty in being sure about her future life with Frank: this is rhetorical because in the end she does not leave her country to escape with Frank and live in Buenos Aires "happily ever after".

22.

The realistic cause of romantic Eveline's confusion can be found in the desire to escape from a difficult life in a small village and the fear to find the same life in a distant country with a man who, being a sailor, might have "a wife in every port".

23.

Scene no.2 shows us Eveline's fear coming out in an uncontrolled way. She is pale, she is cold, feeling an extreme suffering and praying to God to show her the right thing to do. The most explicit sentence is when she asks herself if she can draw back and say no to Frank after all he had done for her.

24.

The two sentences are not used in a ritual way because the first talks about a bell which makes a metallic noise upon Eveline's heart, the latter talks about the seas rapidly rolling on her heart. These metaphors are highly indicative of a very clever use of the language by Joyce.

25.

The two heroines differ in their religious approach.

26.

The sentence "No, mother. Let me be and let me live." can be applied to Eveline's life because she wants to have a different life from her mother's but, at the same time, she feels she has to stick to the promise she made to her mother.

27.

Yes, I think that the young James Joyce would have said that an excessive romanticism makes people's lives unhappy.

28.

In my opinion Eveline should have escaped from Dublin (though not necessarily since she could also have escaped from her family and have moved to another village), but not with Frank because in between the lines she shows the fear of not being loved by him (also because he was a sailor, thus away for the most part of the year).