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CSguassero - denotative analisys
by - (2009-11-26)
Up to Eveline
Eveline is the name of a nineteen-year-old adolescent. She lives in Dublin with her brother Harry and her father, her mother and her oldest brother Ernest were dead. She is used to sit all time by her window, seeing people in her street and waiting to leave home. She works in a shop in Dublin and with her money she can look after her family, in particular her father that is always drunk. As a matter of fact he becomes a violent man after the death of his wife. Eveline always thinks about her life, her past, her present difficult situation and about her future: she would like to escape. She has a fellow and she would like to go with him to Buenos Aires by ship without telling it her father. She wrote him and her brother a letter. But before going to the pier, she hears an organ grinder outside. He plays a melody that reminds her a song of an organ she listened the day of her mother's death. Eveline thinks about the promise she made to her mother, to look after the family, and when she goes to the pier to embark on a ship together with Frank, she becomes pale and passive and decides not leave with him.