Eveline is a short story belonging to Dubliners, written by James Joyce in 1914. In the writer's idea , Dubliners, as a collection, had the function to write a chapter of the moral history of his country. Evelineis composed of six different sequences where the writer deals with her emotions and feelings.
In the first sequence Eveline remembers her past life in the neighborhood and all the events occurred to her when she was a little girl. In the second sequence every object reminds her something . Also, her feelings about leaving home are shown by the writer . The third sequence is about her relation with her father. It's outlined her importance for the family as she's the only one able to run it. The fourth sequence deals with the figure of Frank, that represents the possibility of leaving home and escape from her reality and her father. The fifth sequence takes back the beginning of the novel, as Eveline returns to think about her past and her family. The memory of her mother's death comes back and causes a desire of escape. The sixth sequence is located in North Wall station where she's about of leaving the country with Frank. Yet, while Frank is getting on board, Eveline refuses to and stops on the quay, unable to control her fears and to surpass her past life.
The relation between the sequences is the description of Eveline life in the first and in the fifth sequence , that links the various topics of the sequences to each other.
In the short story there's the third person free omniscient narrator, the stream of consciousness, and the language of poetry.