Eveline is a short story taken from "Dubliners" and written by James Joice: she is a Dubliners teenager and this is demonstrated from the fact that she is unable to make a decision because of the inability to have a point of view.

In addition, she belongs to the working class, but it doesn’t return her any motivation and this causes a thought in her mind of a life without hopes and desires. In fact this is a consequence of the danger figure of her father, a man that is violent and often drunk.

Nevertheless her life is made of habits (this is conveyed by the alternative use of the sound “r”). Eveline demonstrates the possibility that she can dream a life that take distance from her situations, but at the end it’s an illusion because she is uninhabited to ask herself curious questions for how changes her life.

During the short story Joyce demonstrates to be a modernist’s writer because he adopts the third person and an omniscient narrator: thank of this decision the writer can use the protagonist (in this case Eveline) to analyze the word. In particular in “Dubliners” he wants to underline the fact that people, often teenagers, give up because they are afraid of life and their future.