Time: throughout the short story "Eveline" there is a shift among the time of the story, the past and future.

In the first part of the extract Eveline sits at the window watching the evening come. In the meantime she thinks to her oncoming departure with Frank and what she will miss (time of the story).

During her thoughts, there are many flashbacks. They are about her childhood, her relationship with her father, her secret meetings with Frank and the last night of her mother. What links all the flashbacks is the figure of the father, his behaviors and his ideas.

In addition there is also a shift to the future. Eveline imagines what she would after leaving and what people would say.

In the second part of the extract the time of the story changes and Eveline is no more in her home, but he is in the station with Frank and she is leaving.

Location: the main setting of the sort stories are two: Eveline's home and the station of Dublin.

In the first part of the extract the character is in her home. It is very important, because she already miss it, even if she is not left yet. She is grown up here and she is afraid of leaving it because leaving her home means change her life.

In the second part of the extract Eveline is in the station of Dublin. It is the opposite of her house. The first one is the place where people go away, the place that preannounce a departure, a radical change. The second one is the location of her childhood and her adolescence, the location of paralysis.