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Joyce, James: Eveline
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
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