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GMuller - Eveline Denotative Analysis
by - (2009-11-08)
Up to Eveline
A girl of about nineteen years of age sits by her window, waiting to leave home. She is thinking about her life, her past, her present and her future . Her mother has died as has her older brother Ernest. Her remaining brother, Harry is on the road "in the church decorating business".
Her father is violent andshe fears that her father will beat her as he used to beat her brothers, and she has little loyalty for her sales job.
She has fallen for a sailor named Frank who promises to take her with him to Buenos Aires. At the dock where she and Frank are ready to embark on a ship together, Eveline is deeply conflicted and makes the painful decision not to leave with him.