Eveline is a short story belonging to Dubliners. In James Joyce's idea Dubliners as a collection had the function to write the chapter of the moral history of his country. Dublin represented the center of paralysis (both from the physical and metaphoric point of view).

The protagonist is Eveline. She is adolescent. The short story is indeed part of the section of Dubliners devoted to adolescent.

Right from the start the protagonist, a girl belonging to the working class, is looking at the outside world from her house. She perceives external reality as a threat as the intelligent reader can see ("The evening invade the avenue"), the verb "to invade" is taken from semantic field of the fight.

The text can be divided into seven sequences.

The function of the first sequences is to introduce the main female character through the comparison and difference between her childhood and present situation when she is going to leave her home.

In the second sequence the narrator provides the reader with further informations about character making a reference to the familar object which are very important for her.

In the third sequence she wonders if the idea of leaving was right and also there is analyse of her position and situation at work.

The function of fourth sequence is to describe her difficult family life and to introduce her hope for a better life with Frank, her lover.The narrator also reveals her name, Eveline.

In the next sequence the writer presents her expectations from the new life with Frank.

The function of the sixth sequence is to analyze her relations with the members of her family: the father was against her love with Frank but also she was not always ill-treated by him; she promised her mother that she would keep home together as long as she could. In this sequence she also decides to run away after she considered pitiful life of her mother.

In the last sequences the writer presents Evelin and Frank before the departure with the ship. In the first moment Eveline seems physically absent, sign of her indecision and at the end she decides to stay in her city and do not leave her family.

The narrator is the third person omniscient narrator using the interior monologue, stream of consciousness and shift of the point of view. Also the reader can find in the text narrator's opinions ("Perhaps she would never see again...") but also there are parts where the narrator does not appear. The narrator uses these narrative techniques in order to convey characters' to the reader and to take the reader in their inner reality and with his opinions he wants to create the emotional link between the reader and the characters.