“Eveline” is a story about a girl who decides to marry a man named Frank and move away from her Irish home. Something happens to her, but I’m not sure what.
Level One: Where is the priest according to Eveline’s father?
Level Two: Why would Eveline want to move away from the Stores?
Level Three: Would you want to leave? Why?
This story was again, puzzling. But I liked it better than the first story. Eveline is a very intriguing character because of the way Joyce tells her story. We learn everything we could ever want to know about her in a very short amount of space.
This story doesn’t drip with overwhelming anti-Catholic Church sentiment like the previous story did. The one reference that stood out to me was the beginning one about the priest. His photograph is “yellowing” and is placed beside “promises made to Blessed Maragret Mary Alacoque.” I am assuming these promises were never fulfilled.
Eveline is going to marry Frank but I can’t tell if she is excited about it or not. She seems to like him but their relationship appears to be a little random.
The latter half of the story was the really confusing part for me. Something happens with the Italian army… I think. I can’t really tell what’s going on but somehow she loses Frank. Actually, he might lose her. Is he being taken away to go to war?
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