This extract is taken from “Dubliners”, a novel written by James Joyce during the last century.

From the structural point of view it is organized in ten paragraphs: each one has an aim and for this reason it differs from the other for a title or a small resume.
Paragraphs: a) Presentation of the place; b) Presentation Water’s family; c) Presentation of the setting (house); d) Goodbye Eveline; e) The new life; f) The past; g) The life with Frank; h) The old age of the father; i) The present; l) The escape from Frank.

The author doesn’t write this novel using a temporal process: in fact reading it the reader understands the differences between when he speaks of the present and when he speaks of the past. This is evidently not only because he changes the time, but in particular because he makes a change from the argumentation point of view.

Besides, there is a repetition of some verbs with their functions: first of all it often uses the verb “used to” with the purpose to describe an habits in the past; secondly he uses the verb “must” which means a duty to do something; at the end there is a continuous use of the conditionals that has the aim to describe an actions that can change its possibility (from impossible to possible) and this depends from which tense the writer uses.

The narrator is in third person and he is omniscient: for this reason he adopts an interior point of view because he knows every detail of each characters. In fact knowing in particular everything in Eveline’s mind seems that is her to write the novel using the third person.