1.

 

A. The Beginning

 

In the first paragraph the narrator shows Eveline sitting by a window at home, feeling tired.

 

B. The Middle

 

We then follow Eveline's thoughts as she thinks about her present, past and future. Indirectly, we learn many details about her life - about her family and lover. In particular, we find out she's going to leave home, but that she's not sure this is wise.

The narrator then shows us Eveline at the window again - a little later. Again we follow her thoughts. She hears an organ playing. More thoughts. Then suddenly she stands up in terror.

In scene two the narrator shows Eveline standing with her lover near a boat that is about to leave for Liverpool (in order to get a ship for South America). More of Eveline's thoughts and feelings. Eveline grips a railing.

 

C. The End

 

The story ends dramatically. Eveline doesn't move.

 

2.

 

A. The Beginning

 

WHO: Eveline.

WHAT: looking.

HOW: tired; frightened.

WHERE: home.

WHEN: evening.

 

B. The Middle

 

Eveline notices people passing, including the man who lives in the last of the new red houses nearby. The sound of this footsteps makes her think of the field that used to be there, of the differences between the new houses and hers.

She then thinks about her childhood, when she and her brothers and sisters were rather happy and when her father was not so bad. The thought that "everything changes" makes her think of her intention to leave.

The word "home" leads her to look carefully at the room she's in, which she has dusted so often; at a photograph of a priest and a print of religious promises.

Next she thinks about the wisdom of her decision to leave, the disadvantages, about how hard her life has been, about how the people at the Stores will react to her leaving.

Next her thoughts turn to the future and how she will escape her father's violence with the help of her lover Frank, who is kind, mainly and open-hearted. She recalls their courtship. Memories of her father's dislike of Frank focus on the time when - after a quarrel with lover - he had forbidden her to speak to him.

We then see that Eveline has written two letters, one to her brother Harry, the other to her father. Her thoughts turn again to her father and she begins to think he would miss her. Happier memories of him follow when, for instance, he had read her a ghost story, and when he put on her mother's bonnet to make the children laugh.

When she hears a street organ playing outside, she remembers her promise to her mother to keep the home together.

In a moment of terror, she stands up and repeats the word "escape" and Frank would save her.

 

WHO: Eveline, Frank.

WHAT: standing; hand; not listening.

HOW: cold.

WHERE: station; steam; Buenos Ayres.

WHEN: evening.

 

Eveline prayes to God to direct her and to show her her duty. When Frank tries to pull her towards him, she feels he will drown her and so she grips the iron railing.

 

C. The End

At the end we see Frank shouting "come" again and Eveline crying out in anguish. Then as Frank rushes to get on board the boat, still calling, we see Eveline whit her white face and her eyes giving him no sign of love or farewell or even recognition.

 

4.

 

Paragraph 1: sight and smell

Paragraph 2: sight and hearing

Paragraph 3: sight

Paragraph 10: smell and hearing

Paragraph 11: hearing

Paragraph 23: touch, sight and hearing  

 

5.

 

Paragraph 1

Sight: the evning "invading" the avenue.

Smell: in her nostrils was the odour of dusty cretonne.

Paragraph 2

Sight: people passing.

Hearing: she heard his footsteps clacking and crunching.

Paragraph 3

Sight: familiar objects that she has dusted - a photograph of a priest, a broken harmonium, a print of promises.

Paragraph 10

Smell: she continued inhaling the odour of dusty cretonne.

Hearing: she could hear a street organ playing.

Paragraph 11

Hearing: she heard again her mother's voice.

Paragraph 13

Touch: Frank holding her hand; her cheek going cold; nausea in her body; her moving lips; Frank seizing her hand and pulling her, gripping (and clutching) the iron railing.

Sight: station full of soldiers, the black mass of the boat, illumined portholes.

Hearing: he was speaking to her, "come", "Eveline, Evvy", he called to her to follow, he shouted.

 

6.

 

a) A mixture of narrative, description of setting and

minimally of character and her feelings.

b) Three.

c) The first two are longer, each with two clauses, the third

much shorter and just one clause.

d) Tiredness.

 

7.

 

a) Evening.

b) Evening, invade, avenue.

c) Frightened.

d) [w]: window, watching.

e) It is always on the first syllable.

f) Her head and nostrils.

g) Nostrils, odour, dusty.

h) Yes, the sounds don't evoke Eveline's feelings.

 

8.

 

In paragraph one: the only basic personal detail is her sex;

we also learn how she feels; and we immediately associate her

with sitting by a window, with dusty cretonne curtains.

The omissions mean we focus on just a few details, that

acquire further significance and resonance as a result.

 

10.

 

a) a few people passing, including a man.

b) the man's footsteps clacking along the concrete pavement and then crunching on the cinder path.

 

11.

 

Passed.

Last.

 

12.

 

Words that change:

 

they; their; The children of the avenue; she; her; Her; them;

her; they; Her; was not; her; she; her; her; she; her

 

14.

 

In my new home,

in a distant unknown country,

it won't be like this.

I'll be married -

me, Eveline.

People will treat me with respect then.

I won't be treated as my mother was.

Even now,

though I'm over nineteen,

I sometimes feel myself in danger of my father's violence.

It's that that's given me the palpitations.

When we were growing up

he never went for me,/

like he used to go for Harry and Ernest,

because I was a girl;

but latterly he's begun to threaten me

and say what he'll do to me for my dead mother's sake.

And now I've nobody to protect me.

Ernest is dead

and Harry is nearly always down somewhere in the country.

Besides,

the invariable squabble for money on Saturady nights has

begun to weary me unspeakably.

I always give my entire wages -

seven shillings -

and Harry always sends up what he can,

but the trouble is/

to get any money from my father.

He says I squander the money,

that I have no head,

that he isn't going to give me his hard-earned money to throw

about the streets,

for he's usually fairly bad of a Saturday night.....

It's hard work -

a hard life -

but now that I'm about to leave

it's not a wholly undesirable life....

But Frank is very kind,

manly,

open-hearted.

I'm to go away with him by the night-boat

to be his wife

and to live with him in Buenos Ayres

where he has a home waiting for me.

How well I remember the first time I saw him;

he was lodging in a house on the main road/

where I used to visit.

It seems 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.

 

15.

 

Just his habits; personality; what Eveline thinks of him;

and what he says.

He is usually seen from Eveline's point of view.

 

19.

 

time: 2; field: 4; play(ed): 3; children: 2; houses: 3; little: 3;

avenue: 1; brothers and sisters: 2; grown up: 2; father: 3;

mother: 2; home: 2; dead: 2

Yes.

 

20.

 

Particulary: a), b), g) and i)