The intelligent reader aspects that the main character of the text is a young woman. In the English literature, lots of tragedies have a first name as title. As a result the reader understands that the text can tell a story where is highlighted some character’s defects. The stream of counciosness is given voice through the interior monologue and so Eveline takes part in Modernism. At the beginning the setting highlights a close space, like character’s house and mind. It is so refered to her interior part. Eveline is still and she is only watching outside from a window. She sees the world like a threat and her house becomes a shield. Right from the start the writer uses verbs of self-impression; there are not verbs of action. She can see a man who is going home. The narrator is giving us a great real description with the use of onomatopoeic verbs. Furthermore the use of the past and the progressive aspect of the verbs give an aspettative of movement. Eveline lives in the past in her head, but she is in the present with her body. She feels nostalgic about the old houses. The reader perceives a sebnse of community; indeed Eveline says that she is watching children that are playing in a garden and they are of all kinds. There is an intrusive use of the word “then”. The narrator, indeed, wants to underline that Eveline lives in the past and she does not like the present.