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Essay Archive - Eveline: Character Analysis
Eveline: Character Analysis
"There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is
habitual but indecision (James)." Originally appearing in Dubliners, a
compilation of vignettes by James Joyce, his short story Eveline is the tale of
such an unfortunate individual. Anxious, timid, scared, perhaps even terrified
-- all these describe Eveline. She is a frightened, indecisive young woman
poised between her past and her future.
Eveline loves her father but is fearful of him. She tries to hold onto
good memories of her father, thinking “sometimes he could be very nice (Joyce
5),” but has seen what her father ....
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