Eveline is a story of the modern novel Dubliners, written in 1914 by James Joyce.
First paragraph aim is to introduce the main character, Eveline, who sits at the window watching the evening and wandering in her  thoughts and memories. Furthermore, the writer describes her as tired, so the reader can understand she is unhappy, unsatisfied of her life and she’s a silent and thoughtful person.
With the second paragraph, the writer begins to explore Eveline’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 third paragraph the writer begins to tell the story trough the stream of consciousness  , trough her thoughts and memories. In the fourth paragraph, she remembers that road because when she was a child she played there with her friends. She thinks she was happy that time because her mother  was still alive and her father wasn’t so bad. The intelligent reader can understand she has had an hard life: her mother is dead and her father is not a good one. She thinks to the strangeness of life: her mother is dead, her friend Tizzie Dunn is dead, while she is still alive and life continues on her course. Now she’s going to leave her house to go away, like her friends, like other people.
In the fifth paragraph, the thought to leave her house makes Eveline focus on her things and on her house: she’ll miss them.  Only in the next paragraph, the writer says that she’ll go away with her boyfriend. She has lots of doubts and questions about this decision and so the reader can understand she is an insecure person. She also asks to herself what they would said in the Stores about her departure. In the seventh paragraph she said Mrs. Gavan would be happy for it because she was always rude with her. In the next paragraph, the temporal dimension changes again: she thinks to her future, when she’ll be in her new house and when she’ll be married with her husband. The intelligent reader can understand that she’s going to marry soon. In this paragraph the narrator says she’s nineteen: she’s very young.
In the ninth paragraph the narrator introduces two characters, probably her brothers: Ernest, who is dead, and Harry, who always works far away. So she’s lonely with his father. Then the narrator describes the complex relationship between them.
In the tenth paragraph the narrator introduces another character, Frank,  her boyfriend. She describes him as kind and open-hearted.  The narrator says that she is going to go to Buenos Aires with him by the night boat. The city makes Eveline remember when she met him for the first time and what they did together. The narrator says that when the father had found out their relationship he had forbidden her to have anything to say to him because he doesn’t like sailors like him.
In the eleventh paragraph the temporal dimension changes again in the present. Eveline is sitting with two letters for Henry and his father. Suddenly, she hears a melody that makes her remember the promise to her mother to keep the home as long as she could and makes her remember the last night of her mother. The temporal dimension changes and she remembers to her mother’s illness and life.
In the next paragraph suddenly she stands up and decides to continue her life with Frank and goes to North Wall Sation.
But at the end she decides to stop and to return at home to keep her promise.