Eveline

Eveline was written by James Joyce. We find it in Dubliners where is 15 stories about inhabitant.
Eveline is a young woman of about nineteen years of age. She sits by her window and waits to leave home. Her mother has died as has her older brother Ernest. She has work and she have to give money to her father. Her father probably spends the money. She has fallen for a sailor named Frank who promises to take her with him to Buenos Aires. Before leaving to meet Frank, she hears her mother. Eveline promises she made to her mother to look after the home and she can’t go with Frank and she remains in Dublin.
Eveline’s father is a very bitter person, probably alcoholic too, who has problems expressing his feelings. He doesn’t know how to say what he really means and thinks. This is why Eveline sometimes fears him.
Frank is an honest, manly and open-hearted person who is interested in music and idealized by Eveline because he was the first person to take her out of her everyday life and show her something new and exciting.