1st Part
Time : evening
Place: the living room
2nd Part
Time: later in the evening
Place: the station at the port
dusty cretonne” – yellowish photographs” broken harmonius”. From these details and from others like the arguments about money, we can infer that it is a lower-middle class family.
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PRESENT |
PAST |
FUTURE |
She sat at the window |
– she and her brothers and sisters were all grown up– her mother was dead |
– her childhood– her father |
– now she was going away |
She looked round the room |
– her household duties– her job at the stores– her fear of her father– Ernest was dead and Harr was away– squabbles for money |
– the first time she had seen Frank– going out and to the thetre with frank– quarrel between her father and Frank |
– she was about to explore another life with Frank– she would get married– she would be treted with respect |
The white of two letters |
– her father was becoming old |
– he had read her out a ghost story– a piscnic to the Hill of Howth |
– her father would miss her |
She continued |
– the street organ reminded her of the promise to her mother |
– her mothers last night |
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She sttod up | – she must escape | – Frank would save her |
– They are activated freely.
– They are activated by external, sensorial stimuli like the impressions fronm the street, from the room, from the white of the two letters, from the song played by the street organ.
– is violent
– drinks a lot
– is miserly
– is selfish
Violent : l.16, 44-50, 109-110
Drinks a lot: l.57-58
Miserly: l.52 – 59
Selfish: l.90 -91 ( he had probably quarrelled with Frank because he didnt want to lose the daughter who looked after the house and the other children)
She had been charmed by his kindness, open-heartedness, manliness. She had met him when visiting someone who lived in the main road /he too lived in the main road). He had met her at the Stores, had taken her to the theatre. She had become fond of him amd of the way he told her about his life. When her father and Frank had quarrelled she had accepted to leave home and to go to Buenos Aires with him.
PROS |
CONS |
She had to work hard |
At home she had shelter and food |
She would be treated with respect |
She didnt find it a wholly undesirable life |
She would not live as her mother did |
She loved her borthers and sisters and perhaps also her father |
It is the same air she had heard on the last night of her mothers life. The air suddenly reminds her that her mothers death had been the tragical conclusion of an equally miserable life
They are arranged from the most involving feeling – love- to the simple perception of the other person.
– the promise made
– mistrust of Fr4ank
– her own inertia
– fear of the future
– the love for her father and brothers
Her own inertia, mainly
– The end of the story is closed because probably noyhing will ever happen to change Evelines life/destiny
– No, nothing has changed
– It is impossible for anybody to really change his/her in a city dominated by the basic experience of spiritual paralysis
– her sense of duty
– Catholic religion
– Her psychological features
– Her social class and education
She is mainly a Dubliner who has no help from either religion or education – she sounds rather simple-minded – to get out of her prison. Besides, her promise to her mother and an obvious sense of dependence on her fathers authority contribute to her impossibility to leave home.
– She doesn’t persist in her choice
– Hope
Araby |
Eveline |
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Paralysis |
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Escape |
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The average Irish male |
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Attraction/rejection |
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The chalice |
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Claustrophobia |
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