Analyzing the short story Eveline by James Joyce, the reader can identify that the short story is subdivided in fourteen parts because each one of these parts explains the situation, the feelings and the behaviours in which Eveline finds herself.

The first part I found starts from the beginning of the short story to the 7^th line. This part is the introduction to the story and explains what Eveline is doing and where she is. So it is presented the figure of the main character of the short story.

The second part comprises part of the 7^th line to the 17^th line. Here Eveline remembers her young age watching out of the window, because out the world goes on, contrary she is sat at home.

But in the third part she realizes she is in the present and she is thinking to go away from home.

The description of the place in which she is, her home, is explained in the fourth part (from line 24 to the 35^th line). She looks round the room and she sees all the family's things.

In the fifth part, Eveline has got doubts and perplexities about what she is going to do: leaving home. This part is significant because reveals insecurity of Eveline's personality.

The next part (from line 52 to line 54) is a short one. The young woman realizes again that she is in the present and only her mind goes in the past.     

In the seventh part are explained Eveline's memories about her youth during which her father was used to maltreat she and her brothers.

The next part is bigger than the previous, it starts from line 58 and it ends to line 81. Eveline returns to the present and she thinks about what the future waits for her: a change of her life.

The ninth part ands to the line 103. In these lines emotions and feelings invade Eveline, she thinks about her boyfriend who is her possibility to change life in better. The reader can realize that she want a change and she would be happy with a change of her life.

In the tenth part she thinks about her father's behaviour.

The eleventh part (lines 116-119) she returns in the present, in the reality: she realizes she is sat with her head against the window.

In the next part (lines 119-132), she remembers again her mother and the day of the mother's death because something happens out of the window like the day in which her mother died.

In the next part to the last, Eveline reacts to the situation and to all what happened to her with an emotional response.

The end of the short story explains Eveline's unease and the renunciation of her dream of liberty.

After an analysis of Joyce's short story, the reader can understand that Eveline is unable to act to her problems, she cannot take decisions but she only can think and make resolutions to her problems. This is why there are many parts in the short story, she always acts with her mind (from the present to the past or to the future) like all the inhabitants of Dublin, the city in which the story is set and the changing of her thinking determinates the subdivision of the short story.