Common points between James Joyce's short story Eveline and Claudia Sfilli's article Un mondo che abbiamo costruito noi

Eveline is a nineteen-year old  girl in the middle of an emotional crisis. She doesn't know if she should leave with her boyfriend or not.

Claudia Sfilli describes girls as "insicure, complessate, desiderose di amore e di  uscire dalla sorta di limbo imposto dalla loro età, per trovare finalmente sé stesse.". The description fits with Eveline. The girl is not sure about what to do, she   thinks about her whole life and all the changes leaving would bring her. She lived a hard life: her mother and one of her brothers died when she was a child and the other brother worked far away. She lived with her father who threaten her, treated her badly and nobody could protect her. She found love in Frank, a deck boy who promised her to marry her and to take her in Buenos Ayres to live together. She believes that she could start a new life with Frank and forget her past life and maybe find herself.

Claudia Sfilli  also says  "L'adolescenza è un misto di paura ed entusiasmo, ebbrezza e disperazione". Eveline seems to have all the feelings described in C. Sfilli's article: she is afraid of leaving because she imagines the reactions of her father and her friends, but she wants to leave because she believes that "Frank would give her life, perhaps love (...) and he would save her.". She feels contrasting feelings.

So Eveline could well represent an adolescent of nowadays, she has the same thoughts of a contemporary girl and the theses of the journalist "Le adolescenti di oggi sono sempre quelle di sempre" can find a meaning in Eveline as an example.