Eveline is the name of a nineteen-year-old adolescent. She lives in Dublin and sits all time by her window, seeing people in her street and waiting to leave home. Eveline always thinks about her life, her past, her present difficult situation and about her future: she would like to escape. Her mother and her brother Ernest were dead  and she lives with her brother Harry and her father. She has got a job: she works in a shop. So she can get some money to look after her family, in particular her father that is always drunk. He became a violent man after the death of Eveline’s mother: Eveline has nice remembers of her past. Her dream is to go to Buenos Ayres with her lover Frank but before going to the pier (where there is the ship), she hears an organ grinder outside. He plays a melody that reminds her a song of an organ she listened the day of her mother’s death. So Eveline thinks about the promise she made to her mother (it is to look after the family). When she goes to the pier to embark on a ship together with Frank, she becomes strange, pale and passive and decides not leave with him (she thinks he can drown her).