Eveline is yet another tale about paralysis from James Joyce's Dubliners. It is a story of arduous childhood and adolescence full of anguish. The family bonds in Eveline are almost like chains and the protagonist is mentally and physically heavily burdened by her parents. Her life is full of responsibilities and duties, but when she is offered a release from this life, she dares not to take her chances. She is too scared.

The story takes place in Dublin, presumably at the beginning of the twentieth century (Dubliners was published in 1914). Eveline, the protagonist, sits by a window in a dull room almost for the whole story, the final scene being the only action happening outside this room. The time span of the beginning and the end is merely a few hours.

The story commences with Eveline sitting at a window, watching the avenue. Years ago there used to be a field there in which she and the other children, excluding her brother Ernest "who was too grown up to play", used to......

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Title: Eveline By James Joyce
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