Eveline is a short story written by Joyce and belonging to "Dubliners".
In Joyce's idea "Dubliners" as the collection had the function to write a chapter of moral history of his country.
Dublin represents the centre of paralysis for the novelist (both from physical and metaphorical point of view).
The protagonist is Eveline, an adulescent belonging to the working class.

1. First sequence: from the 1st line, to the phrase "leave her home".
The function is to present the setting in which Eveline lives.
More over it explain current condition of Eveline's situation. She is an adulescent in Dublin with a father that doesn't feel well, and without a mother. She is going to change way of living (or she is thinking about).
2. Second sequence: from "She had consented to go away" to "wholly undesiderable life".
Thw function is to convay the idea of changing, the idea of movement because here it is explained by Eveline's past the way in which she may feel better, married an unknown (to the reader) fellow (Frank). Here hence the intelligent reader can understand that Eveline longs to escape to her ordinary reality. But, beyond surface, the reader may notice a form of homesickness.
3. Third sequence: from "She was about to" to "He would save here". The function is to convay hopes and wishes of Eveline. She entrusts Frank. She belives that he help her to have a different life. He is a sailor, he sails across the oceans. She have written two letters to make her relatives understand about her decision to leave. But, all in all, she is scared by the new life. The novelist underlines its writing another time "The evening deepned in the avenue". The quotation expresses the idea of something negative, something who is a threat for her. Despite she loves him, she is not able to abandon to him.
4. The last sequence deals about the Eveline's departure day. It begins from "She stood among the swaying crowd" and finishes to the last line of the short story.
She is in front of the North Wall (port of Dublin) and she has to go on board. On a sudden, she decides to not follow her lover Frank: she remains faithful to her nostalgia and to her deepest intentions or feelings. Because of it Eveline stays motionless tightening the iron railing.

The narrative tecniques are :
a. stream of consciousness, using to focus on Eveline's emotions and thoughts.
b. flash-back to explain causes of present events, as the death of Eveline's mother.
c. the plot and dialogue are reduced to lowest terms. All deals with the subjectivity
d. the narrator is eclipsed. It is a typical way to write during the Modernism.