The short story Eveline is taken from James Joyce's  collection of short stories, Dubliners. The main character is a female adolescent, Evelin, living in Dublin. She is presented by an first person omniscient narrator, who knows everything crossing her mind. Thanks to the onomatopoeic use of the language, which appears to the sense, sight, hearing and smell, the reader can see, hear, smell and touch. The external world is perceived as a danger, a menace. That is suggested by the use of the verb "invade", which is taken from the war code.  Right from the beginning the character looks inactive, paralyzed; she sits, she watches, she is tired, but she does nothing. Eveline knows the world outside: it is busy and she is an ordinary girls, her life is a routine. Silence is broken only by the onomatopoeic sound of footsteps clacking on the ground. Interesting is to notice that the only novelty are the new houses, symbolically red. Than Eveline goes back to her childhood. The introductory "one time" seems to put it really far away, due to the open, long vowel sound. Than the narration goes on with the present, the carcter in described. She feels home only among her "familiar objects", in her routine life. Dust becomes the paradigmatic metaphor for her existence. She sometimes seems to dream about the possibility to take distance from her situation. But that is just an illusion: her mind is full of stupid and useless questions, like the unknown name of that priest. That should not be a surprise: all she is surrounded by is "yellowing or broken". The intelligent reader know that the short story is used to introduce the difficult situation in Ireland, connected with religion. That theme is really important and all religious objects in her house seems to be "heavy weights".