Starting from the title: Eveline, the reader understands that she’s the main character of the short story.

The narrator is omniscient and in third person, he tells the story from his and Eveline's point of view and through the narrative technique of showing; the third person narrator communicates the girl’s passive behaviour.

The more evident textual clue of Eveline’s indecision is her wondering to her past and present life, rendered through the technique of the interior monologue: in her inability to state a judgement, she turns in her mind even the more negative aspects of her life to positive. The girl is totally unable even to express a judgement on her own condition.

The narrator also adopts the language of sense impression to connote Eveline’s condition of indecision: the grey dust in her sitting room, the yellowing photographs, the brown houses and the cinder path remind at something nebulous, not definite, and symbolize the girl’s passiveness.

So, unable to make a point of view, Eveline is unable to act and to take personally her decisions.

For this reason Eveline is in a condition of paralysis, like every protagonist in very story in ‘Dubliners’.

The first image of the short story portraits Eveline watching out of the window, the evening ”invading” the avenue refers to the isolation of the inside from the outside world.