Review Of Eveline By James Joyce - 1684 Words

James Joyce’s short story, â€Å"Eveline,† displayed Eveline’s indecisiveness on whether to leave home or stay at home. In the first part of the story, Eveline lost the physical presence of her family and friends; they either preceded in death or moved to another place. As she tried to develop her new life with her father, she noticed her father’s violent actions that she does all she can to escape the violence (Joyce, par. 9). When she explored life with Frank, she developed feelings for Frank in order to escape home. However, Joyce ended the story with her motionless as the boat takes Frank without her. This leaves readers wondering what happened to Eveline. Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalytic criticism gives readers insight of what happened to†¦show more content†¦Not only does the id contained the darkest wishes, it also contained her fears, mostly from her father. Joyce developed the father’s character by saying that Eveline’s father â€Å"was not so bad then.† (Joyce, par. 2). However, as Eveline became nineteen, Joyce explained the father’s change of character, as Eveline â€Å"felt in danger of her father’s violence.† As a little girl, she saw her father â€Å"go for† her brothers, Harry and Ernest; as Eveline became a mature girl, her father would threaten her to â€Å"do to her only for her mother’s sake,† leaving her defenseless against her father’s violence (Joyce, par. 9). In addition, her father met with Frank and quarreled against him, leaving her to keep her affair a secret (Joyce, par. 12). The change in her relationship with her father gave her intense fears that she could suffer the same fate as her mother. With her experience of the deaths of her family and friends and the abuse of her father, her deep desire to leave home came from those past experiences. However, her treatment of love and respect from Frank gave her expectations for better things in her life; those expectations are home to her where she can experience love, as she did long ago, and a husband she found attractive that will give her respect, different from her mother. The id makes this her first priority and ultimate mission in the story so Eveline can find happiness at all costs. Freud’s secondShow MoreRelated Acceptance of Loss in Eveline and Hills Like White Elephants1305 Words   |  6 PagesThe End of Love and Acceptance of Loss in â€Å"Eveline† by James Joyce and â€Å"Hills Like White Elephants† by Ernest Hemingway At least once in a lifetime, most people will experience the end of a love and have to deal with the difficulties of moving on. The end of a romance can occur either through choosing to leave your other half or being the one who is left. 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