Eveline Hill. The protagonist of the story, Eveline is a hard-working Irish woman around age nineteen living with her father in her childhood home in Dublin.

Eveline is deeply religious and continually prays to God, asking for guidance with her difficult decision. She feels perpetually powerless over her situation, ...

Torn between two extreme options—unhappy domesticity or a dramatic escape to Argentina for marriage—Eveline has no possibility of a moderately content life.

A nineteen-year-old girl living in Dublin who is the story's protagonist and titular character. Over the course of the text, Eveline grapples with the decision ...

Eveline, the title character of James Joyce's, “Eveline” is a young woman who is internally conflicted which results in her being indecisive.

Joyce effectively portrays the psychological complexities of such a victim through Eveline. Although she has a few positive memories of her father, these seem ...

Eveline is the central character of the story, a young woman living in Dublin who finds herself at a crossroads in life.

Eveline is somewhat naïve and inexperienced despite her young exposure to death and trauma. She thinks “it had been an excitement for her to have a fellow.

The main character, Eveline, is torn between her duty to take care of her family and her desire to leave Ireland with her lover, Frank. She is hesitant to ...

Eveline is characterized as a conflicted and passive young woman trapped by her sense of duty and fear of the unknown.