Few people passed. The man out of the last house passed on his way home;"

Omniscient narrator: the narrator shows us the situation.

"she heard his footsteps clacking along the concrete pavement and afterwards crunching on the cinder path before the new red houses."

The narrator makes us understand what Eveline is watching because he takes the reader inside Eveline's mind. The outer space is the projection of the character's perception.

"One time there used to be a field there in which they used to play every evening with other people's children. Then a man from Belfast bought the field and built houses in it - not like their little brown houses but bright brick houses with shining roofs. The children of the avenue used to play together in that field - the Devines, the Waters, the Dunns, little Keogh the cripple, she and her brothers and sisters. Ernest, however, never played: he was too grown up.

Her father used often to hunt them in out of the field with his blackthorn stick; but usually little Keogh used to keep nix and call out when he saw her father coming."

The shift of the point of view takes the reader inside Eveline's mind thus giving the reader information about the character's past childhood.

In this part the writer uses simple past and oft the verb "used to".

"Still they seemed to have been rather happy."

This is an opinion: the verb "to seem" makes us understand that Eveline is unsure also of this feeling.

"Her father was not so bad then; and besides, her mother was alive. That was a long time ago; she and her brothers and sisters were all grown up; her mother was dead. Tizzie Dunn was dead, too, and the Waters had gone back to England."

From this part the reader continues to take information about Eveline's childhood. In particular here there is a significant event: her mother's death.

The sentence "That was a long time ago" makes us understand that the protagonist feels that happy and calm situation very distant now.

"Everything changes."

In this sentence we can see that the tense is changed: it is a simple present now. The reader can immediately understand that a lot of things have been changing in Eveline's life up to now but also that a change can happen in her present life.

"Now she was going to go away like the others, to leave her home."

This sentence expresses an Eveline's intention.

"Home!"

FREE DIRECT SPEECH: it seems that Eveline is really speaking.

"She looked round the room, reviewing all its familiar objects which she had dusted once a week for so many years, wondering where on earth all the dust come from."

There is an omniscient narrator that adopts Eveline's point of view with the choice of FREE INDIRECT SPEECH.

There seems to be an ECLIPSE OF THE NARRATOR.

"Perhaps she would never see again those familiar objects from which she had never dreamed of being divided."

This sentence expresses an hypothesis of Eveline's future. The omniscient narrator is speaking.

And yet during all those years she had never found out the name of the priest whose yellowing photograph hung on the wall above the broken harmonium beside the coloured print of the promises made to Blessed Margaret Mary Alacoque. He had been a school friend of her father. Whenever he showed the photograph to a visitor her father used to pass it with a casual word: "He is in Melbourne now."

The reader's feeling is that the narrator has an eclipse here.

There is also a shift of the point of view: as the matter of fact the writer reports a sentence told by the father.  

"She had consented to go away, to leave her home."

The omniscient narrator is speaking and he adopts Eveline's point of view.

"Was that wise?"

FREE DIRECT SPEECH: it seems that Eveline is speaking and that she is asking herself if her decision to leave her home is wise.

"She tried to weigh each side of the question. In her home anyway she had shelter and food; she had those whom she had known all her life about her. Of course she had to work hard both in the house and at business."

The omniscient narrator is speaking adopting Eveline's point of view. The reader feels himself inside Eveline's mind and he can understand her thoughts.  

"What would they say of her in the Stores when they found out that she had run away with a fellow?"

FREE DIRECT SPEECH: it seems that Eveline is making herself a question.

"Say she was a fool, perhaps; and her place would be filled up by advertisement. Miss Gavan would be glad. She had always had an edge on her, especially whenever there were people listening."

These sentences express some hypothesis made by Eveline about her possible future.

"Miss Hill, don't you see these ladies are waiting?"

"Look lively, Miss Hill, please."

There is a shift of the point of view. In these sentences an other character is speaking: Miss Gavan who works with Eveline. The writer uses the direct speech to allow the reader to make his personal conclusions.

"She would not cry many tears at leaving the Stores."

This sentence expresses an hypothesis: the narrator enters inside Eveline's mind and the reader can know also her feelings.

"But in her new home, in a distant unknown country, it would not be like that. Them she would be married - she, Eveline. People would treat her with respect then. She would not be treated as her mother had been."

It seems that Eveline is speaking about her possible future with Frank in an other country.

"Even now, though she was over nineteen, she sometimes felt herself in danger of her father's violence. She knew it was that that given her the palpitations."

Through this sentences the reader can immediately understand the difficult situation in which Eveline lives. The problem is her father's violence.

"When they were growing up he had never gone for her, like he used to go for Harry and Ernest because she was a girl; but latterly he had begun to threaten her and say what he would do to her only for her dead mother's sake."

We can understand the difficult situation through Eveline's memories.

"And now she had nobody to protect her. Ernest was dead and Harry, who was in the church decorating business, was nearly always down somewhere in the country."

The narrator speaks adopting Eveline's point of view.

"Besides, the invariable squabble for money on Saturday nights had begun to weary her unspeakably."

The narrator speaks adopting Eveline's point of view.

"She always gave her entire wages - seven shillings - and Harry always sent up what he could but the trouble was to get any money from her father. He said she used to squander the money, that she had no head, that he wasn't going to give her his hard-earned money to throw about the streets, and much more, for he was usually fairly bad of a Saturday night. In the end he would give her the money and ask her had she any intention of buying Sunday's dinner. Then she had to rush out as quickly as she could and do her marketing, holding her black leather purse tightly in her hand as she elbowed her way through the crowds and returning home late under her load of provisions."

The narrator speaks adopting Eveline's point of view. The narrator is omniescient because he knows very well what Eveline has to do.  

"She had hard work to keep the house together and to see that the two young children who had been left to her charge went to school regularly and got their meals regularly."

The omniscient narrator speaks adopting Eveline's point of view.

"It was hard work-a hard life-but now that she was about to leave it she did not find it a wholly undesirable life."

This sentence expresses an Eveline's opinion. The reader can immediately understand that she is very unsure.

"She was about to explore another life with Frank."

This sentence expresses an intention of the protagonist.

"Frank was very kind, manly, open-hearted."

This is an opinion of Eveline about his boyfriend Frank. The reader can understand that she likes him.

"She 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 her."

This sentence expresses the intention of Eveline: to go away with Frank. She can imagine her possible future with him.

"How well she remembered the first time she had seen him; he was lodging in a house on the main road where she 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 they had come to know each other."

The narrator tells the reader Eveline's remembrances.

"He used to meet her outside the Stores every evening and see her home. He took her to see The Bohemian Girl and she felt elated as she sat in an unaccustomed part of the theatre with him. He was awfully fond of music and sang a little. People knew that they were courting and, when he sang about the lass that loves a sailor, she always felt pleasantly confused. He used to call her Poppens out of fun."

The narrator tells the reader their habits (what they used to do together).

The narrator tells the reader also Eveline' feelings ("she felt confused").

"First of all it had been an excitement for her to have a fellow and then she had begun to like him."

Through this sentence the narrator tells us Eveline's feelings.

"He had tales of distant countries. He had started as a deck boy at a pound a month on a ship of the Allan Line going out to Canada."

The narrator tells about the past of Frank.

"He told her the names of the ships he had been on and the names of the different services. He had sailed through the Straits of Magellan and he told her stories of the terrible Patagonians."

The omniscient narrator makes us understand other things about Frank's life through Eveline's remembrances.

"He had fallen on his feet in Buenos Ayres, he said, and had come over to the old country just for a holiday."

FREE INDIRECT SPEECH: the narrator reports some Frank's words through Eveline's remembrances. We can understand this from the verb "he said".

"Of course, her father had found out the affair and had forbidden her to have anything to say to him."

The narrator speaks adopting Eveline's point of view.

"I know these sailor chaps," he said.

DIRECT SPEECH: the narrator reports her father's words so the reader can imagine exactly what Eveline feels.

"One day he had quarrelled with Frank and after that she had to meet her lover secretly."

The omniscient narrator tells about the past through Eveline's remembrances.

"The evening deepened in the avenue. The white of two letters in her lap grew indistinct. One was to Harry; the other was to her father."

The omniscient narrator is speaking.

"Ernest had been her favourite but she liked Harry too."

This sentence expresses an Eveline's opinion about her brothers.

"Her father was becoming old lately, she noticed; he would miss her. Sometimes he could be very nice."

This sentence expresses Eveline's opinions about her father (physical aspect, behaviour).

"Not long before, when she had been laid up for a day, he had read her out a ghost story and made toast for her at the fire. Another day, when their mother was alive, they had all gone for a picnic to the Hill of Howth. She remembered her father putting on her mothers bonnet to make the children laugh."

The narrator tells the reader something about her father's behaviour through Eveline's remembrances.

"Her time was running out but she continued to sit by the window, leaning her head against the window curtain, inhaling the odour of dusty cretonne. Down far in the avenue she could hear a street organ playing. She knew the air."

The omniscient narrator is speaking.

"Strange that it should come that very night to remind her of the promise to her mother, her promise to keep the home together as long as she could. She remembered the last night of her mother's illness; she was again in the close dark room at the other side of the hall and outside she heard a melancholy air of Italy. The organ-player had been ordered to go away and given sixpence."

The narrator tells us something significant about the protagonist's past through her remembrances.  

"She remembered her father strutting back into the sickroom saying:"

The narrator tells the reader something about her father through Eveline's memories.

"Damned Italians! coming over here!"

DIRECT SPEECH: in this sentences the narrator reports exactly what the father said.

"As she mused the pitiful vision of her mother's life laid its spell on the very quick of her being--that life of commonplace sacrifices closing in final craziness. She trembled as she heard again her mother's voice saying constantly with foolish insistence:"

The narrator tells the reader about Eveline's remembrances.

"Derevaun Seraun! Derevaun Seraun!"

DIRECT SPEECH: the narrator reports her mother's words so the reader can immediately understand the difficult situation and he is free to make his personal conclusions.

"She stood up in a sudden impulse of terror."

The omniscient narrator is speaking.

"Escape! She must escape!"

FREE DIRECT SPEECH: it seems that Eveline is speaking and it seems that she takes a decision. The narrator takes the reader inside Eveline's mind so the reader is completely involved.

"Frank would save her. He would give her life, perhaps love, too."

The narrator tells us Eveline's opinions about her future.

"But she wanted to live."

This sentence expresses an Eveline's intention. We can understand this from the verb "wanted".

"Why should she be unhappy?"

FREE INDIRECT SPEECH: it seems that Eveline is speaking and that she asking herself something.

"She had a right to happiness. Frank would take her in his arms, fold her in his arms. He would save her."

This sentences express Eveline's opinions about her possible future.

"She stood among the swaying crowd in the station at the North Wall. He held her hand and she knew that he was speaking to her, saying something about the passage over and over again. The station was full of soldiers with brown baggages. Through the wide doors of the sheds she caught a glimpse of the black mass of the boat, lying in beside the quay wall, with illumined portholes. She answered nothing."

The omniscient narrator is speaking and he gives us information about the place and the situation where the two characters are.

"She felt her cheek pale and cold and, out of a maze of distress, she prayed to God to direct her, to show her what was her duty."

The omniscient narrator tells us Eveline's feelings in that moment.

"The boat blew a long mournful whistle into the mist."

The omniscient narrator is speaking.

"If she went, tomorrow she would be on the sea with Frank, steaming towards Buenos Ayres."

The narrator tells us possible Eveline's actions.  

"Their passage had been booked."

The omniscient narrator is speaking.

"Could she still draw back after all he had done for her?"

FREE DIRECT SPEECH: it seems that Eveline is speaking. She makes herself a question. So the reader can immediately understand that she is very confused.

"Her distress awoke a nausea in her body and she kept moving her lips in silent fervent prayer.

A bell clanged upon her heart. She felt him seize her hand:"

The narrator makes us understand Eveline's feelings. The reader is completely involved.

"Come!"

DIRECT SPEECH: Frank is speaking now (imperativ).

"All the seas of the world tumbled about her heart. He was drawing her into them: he would drown her. She gripped with both hands at the iron railing."

The narrator takes the reader inside Eveline's mind. We can understand the difficult situation and her feelings through her thoughts.

"Come!"

DIRECT SPEECH: Frank is speaking again (imperativ).

"No! No! No! It was impossible."

FREE DIRECT SPEECH: we are completely involved in this situation and in this part it seems that Eveline is speaking. She is very confused.

"Her hands clutched the iron in frenzy. Amid the seas she sent a cry of anguish."

The omniscient narrator is speaking and he adopts Eveline's point of view. He tells us about Eveline's actions.

"Eveline! Evvy!"

DIRECT SPEECH: Frank is speaking and he is calling Eveline.

"He rushed beyond the barrier and called to her to follow. He was shouted at to go on but he still called to her."

The omniscient narrator is speaking.

"She set her white face to him, passive, like a helpless animal. Her eyes gave him no sign of love or farewell or recognition."

The narrator adopts Eveline's point of view and expresses her feelings.