Eveline by James Joyce

screen 2 Leaving the completely headquarters that whiz has ever k presentlyn can be re totallyy emotional, especially when you hold so m all memories and have established a r step upine of life story in that stem. Many say live life to the fullest, yet they come up with unbosom after excuse that holds them from leaving. They feel as if they cant make this decision on their own. Trying to find the importation of life and making attempts to discover the reason why they were put on this Earth is hard enough. all(prenominal) day one lives new experiences that we hope will one day lead us to our fate future.Yet, for so many, non knowing where to begin keeps them from despicable forward. Reminiscing on the memories created in our home thinking some how much those memories have faded, and will eventually disappears if they are to leave that home. Being attached to the environment that one is used to or the routine of life holds one back from what the future could hold. eventi den when given the primordial to escape, thinking too hard makes one doubt their ability to adapt to a new environment. What ifs? and dislodgeing that routine of life gives one fear of failure, non making it once leaving the environment.Feeling stuck in trying to find meaning of life makes it easier to come up with excuses to stay in the routine in which one is accustomed to. This is true because it is what happened to evening distinction in eventide line by crowd together Joyce from Ireland during the early on 20th century. No matter how many times even line sits and thinks nigh moving forward, and living new experiences, she was stuck in her past and thinking closely it so much does not let her move on and travel to break out of her routine and bad habits. Joyce does an excellent job illustrating Evelines decision making process with language and symbols throughout the short story.He begins by telling us where Eve line is sitting in her home at the window watching the e vening invade the road as she smells the odor of dusty cretonne letting subscribers know that it was a particular aroma that he had to describe. As she is looking out she begins to reminisce on the memories that she silent has of the big open field where all the children of the roadway used to go out and play when she was younger. Joyce choice of causa names for those childrens families (the Devines, the Water, and the Dunnes) cooperates the reader shot them as very friendly neighbors who Eve line almost saw as family.The name Eve line is another clear symbol that the author makes in the story comparing the main character to Eve from the Adam and Eves biblical story where Eve is confronted by the serpent or Satan just like Eve line was always confronted by her pay off out in the field or the Garden of Eden as the biblical story goes. Eve line believed that her father wasnt so bad then and that she used to be happy then but now everything was different. Joyce reminds the read er many times that Evelines mother isnt alive any more, letting the reader know that Eve line unsounded lamented this loss so much.One of the Dunns had also passed now and the irrigate had moved back to England. She didnt want to be another person who just left her home full of those memories of the past. Joyce repeats the word Home and emphasizes it using an exclamation point as if Eve line was reminding herself that it was the only home she knew. Eve line reminisces on the smallest details of her home, like the objects she had dusted once a week for so many years and the yellowing photograph hung on the wall which her used to always pass and quotes his exact nomenclature He is in Melbourne now. The picture was above the broken harmonium and beside the print of the promises make to Blessed Margaret bloody shame Alacoque. Margaret Mary Alacoque is a Saint of the Roman Catholic Church who was very popular in Ireland during the early 20th century. The broken harmonium is another symbol that Joyce uses to connect the reader to the broken environment of her home and of Ireland in general. With all the memories Eve line holds of her home she had still consented with hound to leave with him and leave it all behind. Eve line begins to really doubt her self.Her mind is spinning and not knowing if her decision was wise. She would break her routine of working hard at home and at work. She was only 19 she begins thinking about what everyone else would say about her. She imagined everyone at her job would think she had run off with a fellow and would turn on up all kind of lies and rumors. Still undecided Eve line begins to build a trick of Buenos Ayres which is where Frank has promised to take her. She imagines being a married woman, treated with respect and not the way she was treated at home by the father.Joyce makes it clear to the reader that Eve line is terrified of her father, he would still threaten her and say he would do it for her dead mothers sake. Eve line has no one to make her feel safe from him. Ernest her brother was dead, and her other brother Harry was in the church building decorating business and was never home. She had too much responsibility in her home and no one to help her with it all. Her father never helped out with money and the children left to her charge did not make her life any easier.With all this she still didnt find it a wholly undesirable life writes Joyce indicating that Eve line is still hesitant of leaving with Frank. Joyce describes Frank as a very kind, manly, open hearted guy who Eve line saw as the only person who could protect her from her father. He tells her they will go on the night- gravy boat and that she will be his wife in Buenos Ayres where he already had a home waiting for her. Joyce shows how primitive Eve line is being about Frank. She had met him not too long ago and had gone out with him a couple times.He had given her a nickname, Poppens, and met her outside of work every evenin g. Frank had many tales about the places he had sailed to all around the world and explains how he had fallen on his feet to Buenos Ayres. Although Eve line didnt see any of Franks flaws Joyce does use language to prove that Franks intentions with Eve line whitethorn not have been good ones considering that during that time Buenos Aires, Argentina was well known for its intimate trafficking. Her father finds out about the relationship and forbid Eve line to keep seeing Frank calling him a sailor Chap. Joyce brings the reader back to the present and gives more excuses for Eve line not to leave her home. She held two letters on her lap, one to Harry and one to her father, she noticed her father adequate old and thought that he would probably miss her, she reminisced on the moments which her father was nice. Joyce illustrates Eve line still sitting on the couch, having just moments left to make her decision. She the odor of dusty cretonne returns and she begins to hear a passage org an play just as she did the night of her mothers death and the promise that she had made to her mother.She promised her mother to keep the home together as long as she could. Most of all it reminded her of the life her mother had lived, that life of commonplace sacrifices closing in on final craziness. She wanted to break that steering wheel that her mother had. She wants to escape that life and believe that Frank would save her , give her life, perhaps love, too. Joyce exposes to the reader that Eve line is aware that Frank doesnt love her and if she leaves with him there is a chance that things do not work out between them.Upon arriving to the station Eve line looks around examining everything around her. She is still isnt sure if she is getting on that boat. She prayed to God to direct her she wanted to know what she was her duty. At that moment the boat blew a long mournful whistle. Evelines decision is determined by of the mournful sound. She thinks about tomorrow how sh e would break out of her routine if she leaves with Frank. Eve line chooses to stay home. Her eyes give Frank no bell ringer of love, farewell or recognition