The intelligent reader finds in "Eveline" an introduction at the beginning: the first three lines tell him/her what Eveline is doing. The second sequence is about her childhood; verbs are in past simple, to underline the end of that period. The present is completely different.  The following sequence is in the past as well, verbs are in past perfect: feelings and actions described seem to be really far from her. Than the text goes on: there is the description of Eveline's more recent past. It is in past simple again. The next two sequences are about her story with Frank and they are divided by the Gaelic phrase. But even if they are both in past simple, in the last part Eveline looks like another person, not anymore the one she was before.

There is a fist person omniscient narrator, who knows everything about the protagonist and tell the reader about both external and internal setting. The language used is concrete and the sound of words is onomatopoeic , to make the environment concrete.