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LZentilin - Modernist Fiction. V. Woolf and J. Joyce. Eveline’s Sequences Analysis
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Answers - Eveline’s Sequences Analysis
1) How many sequences are there in Eveline ?
2) What’s their function ?
3) What’s the relationship between this sequences ?
4) What are the narrative techniques used by Joyce?
1) The short story is arranged in nine sequences, included the short introduction sequence at the beginning.
2) The first one has an introductive function: it focuses on the main object of the story, Eveline and gives hints about her bitter and heavy condition; the second one deepens Eveline’s characterization describing her memories and thought about her childhood and introduces the possibility of a great change in her life; the third and the following two sequences are still functional to the characterization of the girl through the presentation of her life, marked out by routine and repetition, work and fatigue, submission and abuses by her father and the people surrounding her. Through Eveline’s characterization Joyce speaks about the conflict felt by many women in early twentieth-century Dublin between a domestic life rooted in the past and the possibility of a new married life abroad. The sequence number six gives the reader information about this hypothetical future for Eveline, while the next one (seventh and eighth) shifts again to her domestic life and to her inability to let go of those family relationships. The last sequence is set in a different environment (the port of Dublin) and conveys the idea of the character’s paralysis, that isn’t able to face a new life.
3) The sequences let the reader to build the characterization of Eveline.
4) Joyce uses the interior monologue and free indirect style to return to the reader the flows of thoughts of the main character. The omniscient narrator is eclipsed: in the story there’s no trace of his personal view, but just of Eveline’s perspective. Chronological time reflects the inner time of the girl and is represented through movements backwards and forwards.
1) How many sequences are there in Eveline ?
2) What’s their function ?
3) What’s the relationship between this sequences ?
4) What are the narrative techniques used by Joyce?
1) The short story is arranged in nine sequences, included the short introduction sequence at the beginning.
2) The first one has an introductive function: it focuses on the main object of the story, Eveline and gives hints about her bitter and heavy condition; the second one deepens Eveline’s characterization describing her memories and thought about her childhood and introduces the possibility of a great change in her life; the third and the following two sequences are still functional to the characterization of the girl through the presentation of her life, marked out by routine and repetition, work and fatigue, submission and abuses by her father and the people surrounding her. Through Eveline’s characterization Joyce speaks about the conflict felt by many women in early twentieth-century Dublin between a domestic life rooted in the past and the possibility of a new married life abroad. The sequence number six gives the reader information about this hypothetical future for Eveline, while the next one (seventh and eighth) shifts again to her domestic life and to her inability to let go of those family relationships. The last sequence is set in a different environment (the port of Dublin) and conveys the idea of the character’s paralysis, that isn’t able to face a new life.
3) The sequences let the reader to build the characterization of Eveline.
4) Joyce uses the interior monologue and free indirect style to return to the reader the flows of thoughts of the main character. The omniscient narrator is eclipsed: in the story there’s no trace of his personal view, but just of Eveline’s perspective. Chronological time reflects the inner time of the girl and is represented through movements backwards and forwards.