EVELYNE:

• Irish teenager (19 years old)
• poorer working class
• difficult familiar situation
• she has lost her mother
• victims of her father’s violence
• she is not autonomous 
• she can not make choice by her self
• the house is her secure place
• relationship with Frank as a form of escaping from the reality and self-protection

MARIANNE:

• Irish teenager (19 years old)
• rich class
• difficult familiar situation
• victim of her father and brother’s violence
• her mother does not care about her
• she is autonomous and she has to make decision by her self
• she feels protect in the hidden relationship with Connell