"Jens Engelhardt" <[e-mail]>

Eveline

Evelines Thoughts

Past:
her

mother

was

alive

a

pretty

good

childhood

she used to play
her father wwas not so bad then
__________

the death of her mother; her promise to her mother to take care about the familiy

Present:
She has to take care of the family
Her

father

is

wild

sometimes

a

live

of

commonplace

sacrifices

many

friends

leave

(alltägliche

Aufopferung)

her work is not good (at hte stores)
__________

Frank is courting her

Futur
marriage
have a family in Buenos Aires
a

home

waiting

for

her

a

promise

of

a

better

life

a kind, loving husband

Action takes place inside Eveline's head

Symbolism in "Eveline"

odour of dusty

- death

cretonne

- deafening (Taubheit)

window

- she

only

looks at her life

broken harmonium

- no harmony in her life

yellowing photograph

- past, decay

north wall

- cold, no way out

ship - hope

for

a

new

life

Buenos

Aires - "good

air"

Frank

- freedom

(Frank

=

"frei")

Why does Eveline not go?

Eveline's reaction is completely irrational. Her major feeling is her fear of what might be in the future.

James Joyce

1882 * Dublin (eldest of "16 or 17 children")

goes to Jesuit College and Dublin University

1904 leaves Ireland forever together with Nora Barnacle for Paris

live in Paris and Triest

1908 "Dubliners" is published
1916 "The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man."
1921 "Ulysses" is published
1936 last book "Finnegans Wake" is published; lives in Zurich
1941 he dies