Imagine growing up in a house where every day you wake up wishing the day before was a nightmare. You get out of bed, put on your clothes, and know all you have to look forward to is being beaten, threatened and yelled at by one of your parents while you're at home. "Eviline", a story by James Joyce, is about a young girl (Eviline) who is never beaten, but "she sometimes felt herself in danger of her father's violence" (Joyce 4). She faces two choices in the story of which she has to make a decision; she could leave home and maybe find happiness or stay at home with a life that she knew and people that she loved, even though that life was very hard for her.
The fear of failing is as old as man can remember. It is an emotion like no other, a mental state that can make a person do anything for self-preservation.
James Joyce in 1888 at age six. Possibly in Bray, ...
James Joyce statue next to O'Connell street in Dub...
James Joyce, one of the controversial omissions of...Although the story never specifically says Eviline is afraid to leave home and go with Frank. "Frank was very kind, manly, open-hearted" (Joyce 5). He was the man she was in love with and was to move to Buenos Ayres and marry him. Eviline describes her home as a bad place in the beginning of the story. Her house was full of dust; "she had to work hard, both in the house and at business" and her dad was abusive (Joyce 4). When she is on her way to the boat to leave with Frank, she starts to contradict herself. She starts to think about her father and home life. She says "her father was becoming old lately, she noticed; he would miss her. Sometimes he could be very nice." "Another day, when their mother was alive, they had all...