1.Eveline should go away like other people she knows. They go away in different way some die and others change country. Eveline seems threatening to change, she thinks to the past, at the familiar objects, memories and past habits but at the present she remains paralyzed. “…Tizie Dunn was dead, too, and the Waters had gone back to England. Everything changes. Now she was going to go away like the others, to leave her home….she looked round the room, reviewing all its familiar objects”

2.Eveline acconsented to leave her home and lives with Frank. She thinks that if her decision is wise and she starts to analyse the consequence of the change. Eveline doesn’t face the life because she is frightened by the future and so she prefers to stay in her house (she considers it like a refuge) rather than lives her life. Joyce underlines that Eveline is insecure and unable to have a point of view. “She had consented to go away, to leave her home. Was that wise? She tried to weigh each side of the question….”

3.Eveline asks herself what people can think if she will leave the country for a man “What would they say of her in the Stores when they found out that she had run away with a fellow?”

4.She feels in danger of her father’s violence and the only person can defend her is Frank.

5. Eveline expresses the doubt for her choice, if she would this life. “ It was hard work – a hard life – but now that she was about to leave it she did not find it a wholly undesirable life”.

6.She would life with Frank in an unknown country. She doesn’t like to face unknown thing, it is frighten to live. She thinks about her meeting to Frank, their habits “She was about to explore another life with Frank. Frank was very kind….”

7.Eveline thinks that her father isn’t always violent with her “She remembered her father putting on her mother’s bonnet to make the children laugh”.

8.She rethinks what she promises to her mother to cure the house.

9.She prayers God to make the right decision “she prayed to God to direct her, to show her what was her duty…”

10.Eveline doesn’t go with Frank on the boat. She doesn’t face the life and prefers stay in her house, with her memories and her past. Another time Eveline shows her character, she is unable to act, she has never a point of view and she likes to be paralyzed.