My Personal Reading Of Eveline

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My Personal Reading Of Eveline

• Giulia Paparot 4a A.S. 2009/2010

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Meaning of the title

• Eveline

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Denotation

• Denotative analysis

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Structure

• The short story is arranged into three parts

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Narrative Technique
Style used.

• Kinds of narration
• Direct speech
• Free direct speech
• Indirect speech
• Free indirect speech

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Characterization
Secondary characters
Main character
Evelines father Frank
Eveline
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Message
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Reading the title the intelligent reader may
understand that the story tells about a young
girl, called Eveline. This short story belongs to
a collection of shorts stories, by James Joyce,
the name of which is Dubliners. Dublin is
considered the centre of paralysis, and so,
people can understand that the protagonist of
this story represent this feature.
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The narrator tells us a story regarding to a
girl, who lives in Dublin. This girl wants to
leave the city with her boyfriend but she cant
because she feels still connected to the promise
she made to her mother before her mothers death.
The promise is to look after her family. In the
short story are told her thoughts, her feelings
and her memories. In the end she doesnt leave
because she feels like paralysed, she cannot
move. It describes the Dubliners way to behave
they are unable to act.
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The short story is arranged into three parts.
Each part has a function The first part
introduced the situation (Eveline, the
protagonist, is sitting at the window at home,
feeling tired). The second part tells the reader
Evelines thoughts about her past, her present
and her future. The third part is the conclusion
and shows Eveline and Frank at the station.
Eveline doesnt move. It is a dramatical
conclusion.
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• A narrator can choose how to make the reader feel
  using some different kinds of narration
• When he uses direct speech and free direct speech
  the reader feels as if he were present in the
  scene
• When he uses free indirect speech or thought the
  reader feels as if he were into the characters
  mind
• When he uses indirect speech he makes the reader
  feel not closer to the scene.

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• When the narrator uses the technique of showing
  he reports the scene and the words said by the
  characters without saying his comment.
• When the narrator uses the technique of telling
  the scene reported is filtered thought his eyes.

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Eveline is the protagonist of the short
story. She represents perfectly the people of
Dublin, because she behaves herself as if she
were paralysed, unable to act. She hides her
inability to act with the connection made to her
family, in particular to her father, by the
promise she gave to her mother.
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Evelines father is not a saint of man. Reading
Evelines memories the reader can understand that
he is always drunk, and that he mistreat his
family. Frank is Evelines boyfriend. He is a
sailor. He represent the opposite of Eveline, in
fact a sailor is a man without a real steady
point, who can leave one place to an other
without many problems and worries.