The short story is arranged into 4 parts: The function of the first part is to introduce the story and it introduces the main character: Eveline.

We can notice Eveline thinks and the novelist enter  her mind in fact  he adopts Eveline's point of view, he is omniscient. We perceive the setting is a mental innersetting, inside Eveline's mind. Through Eveline's memoirs we can know more about her. In this part she remembers the period when she played  in a field with her firends , her brother and sister and how her father hunt them from the field with a stick.

The function of the second part is to inform the reader about the death of Eveline's mother and how her life is changed after this event. Everything are change, her friend are died and she can leave her home . Her father are aggressive because he is always drunk .

The third part introduce the crucial events of the short story.

Her father became more aggressive and he doesn't give Eveline money because he thinks she speand money without thinking because she hasn't a mind. She meets Frank and she discovers a new life with him, she wants to go with him to Buenos Ayres where he has  home. There are two abstacle for her plain: her father , she remembers the moments with him when he isn't aggressive.

He tells her a ghost story and he goes with her and her father/ sister to make a pic nic.After that there are the most obstacle , her promise to her mother to stay with her family until this is possible.

The function of the last part is to inform the reader about the sad end of the short story. Eveline goes with Frank to the station but she isn't certained about her decision.

When is the moment to come up to the ship she clutch the iron in frezy and then she set her white face to him, passive like a helpless animal ans she doesn't leave with him.