Eveline is a short story written by James Joyce and published in the collection Dubliners.

Right from the title the intelligent reader can speculate the story is about a female character, Eveline,

and her life or about one or more main events of it. The script is divisible in two part: in the first is

presented Eveline's thoughts in the second is described the situation in the reality.

In the firsts line is described Eveline and the set where she is. Going on there is a shift from a objective

reality, that in which Eveline is, to a subjectivity perspective in which is developed Eveline's thought

trough the narrative technique called stream of consciousness. By this memories' collection the reader

has the possibility to know more personally Eveline's life via herself considerations without the

narrator's external voice. The main thought expressed by Eveline is her life's dissatisfaction and the

possibility to change it leaving to Brazil with a boy.

In the second part, more shortly against the first, is presented the departure's scene to Brazil.

Eveline has not enough strong and sure to leave, she remains and the boy, yet on board, leaves without

her.