Eveline is a short story contained in the modern novel Dubliners, written in 1914 by James Joyce.

The first sequence aim is to introduce the main character, Eveline, who sits at the window watching the evening and wandering in her thoughts and memories. The writer describes her as tired, so the reader can understand she is unhappy, unsatisfied of her life and she's a silent and thoughtul person.

Furthermore the writer begins to exploreEveline's mind and tells the story trough what she sees: while she's watching a road of the city, the temporal dimension changes; so in the second sequence the writer continues to tell the story trugh the stream of consciousness, trough her memories. She remembers that road because when she was a child she played there with her friends. She thinks she was happythat time because her mother was still alive and her father wasn't so bad. The intelligent reader can understand she has had a difficult live: her mother is dead and her father's beahviour is not good.

The narrator introduces : Frank, her boyfriend.He is kind and open-hearted  but he is going to to go to Buenos Aires and he invited Eveline to follow him.

The narrator tells that when the father had found out their relantioship he had forbidden her to have anything to say to him because he doesn't like sailors like him.

Eveline was in fight because part of her wanted to left that house in which she found problems and an hard life but her thoughts were stopped by the promise during mother's last night, she promised that she will keep attention to the home as long as she could.

Eveline was paralyzed in front of the window because she was insicure and she wasn't able to live her live and she returned to live her ordinary life knowing she wasn't really live.