James Joyce’s short story “Eveline” and “A letter home from an Irish Immigrant” are both stories about women from Ireland who have or who may make a drastic change in their lives. “Eveline”, is a story about a young girl from Ireland, a girl who works in a small shop to support her family and has to choose between what she considers a bad life in Ireland or a chance to find love. After her mothers death all she had left was her brother and father. Eveline’s father was a drunk and brutal to her. There was no sense in staying. Especially she could possibly fall in love with a sailor named Frank who lived in Argentina. She had to make a choice to stay at home with her brutal father and the only life she’s ever known or to run off to Buenos Aries with her lover and a life of the unknown. The
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“A yellowing photograph hung on the wall above the broken harmonium”. When passing the photograph around he would casually say “he is in Melbourne now”. (513) I feel that people he has cared about had left their quaint town. The Poole Street Dublin photo (517) is significant to the story because this is what Eveline call’s home. It is dull and plain like the life she is living. If she leaves, she will leave behind memories, she will leave her father, this would be her home she would be missing. The photograph in the house symbolizes when the father is upset that his friend moved away. Maybe her father might actually miss her if she moved away with Frank.
After her mothers death Eveline did not enjoy the life she was living. Leaving with Frank to Buenos Aries would give her a better life but the obstacle of change would be to hard to face. She wanted to escape this life but however she doesn’t want to repeat her mother’s life. She was to fulfill her mother’s promise to maintain the up keep on the house, to cook and
“A yellowing photograph hung on the wall above the broken harmonium”. When passing the photograph around he would casually say “he is in Melbourne now”. (513) I feel that people he has cared about had left their quaint town. The Poole Street Dublin photo (517) is significant to the story because this is what Eveline call’s home. It is dull and plain like the life she is living. If she leaves, she will leave behind memories, she will leave her father, this would be her home she would be missing. The photograph in the house symbolizes when the father is upset that his friend moved away. Maybe her father might actually miss her if she moved away with Frank.
After her mothers death Eveline did not enjoy the life she was living. Leaving with Frank to Buenos Aries would give her a better life but the obstacle of change would be to hard to face. She wanted to escape this life but however she doesn’t want to repeat her mother’s life. She was to fulfill her mother’s promise to maintain the up keep on the house, to cook and