Ruslan Medetov Eveline by James Joyce
The story features a young woman of about nineteen years of age waiting to leave home for another life overseas. The author describes the environment of views, sounds, smells which surround the main character, Eveline Hill, how they all evoke flashbacks of childhood in her memory and are a part of her accustomed hard life; her wearisome living with her quarrelsome father after the death of her mother and her elder brother Ernest; her inner disagreement, a dilemma whether to leave this humble toilsome single life for a happy, though so unknown, married life abroad or to resign this opportunity and stay in her habitual world with their usual commonplace problems. The general idea of the story is to show a problem of existential choice. The title of the story is one-worded; this fact signifies the utmost intensification of meaning. The fact that this word is a proper name increases the depth of meaning even more. The type of narration is predominantly author’s words narrated from the third person, alternated by very rare inclusions of direct speech, which as a rule do not belong to the main character (viz. in this story the direct speech lines belong to father, Miss Gavan, mother and Frank). The main character’s point of view agrees with the point of view of the author, moreover, the main character is the author, narrating of herself in third person. It is revealed in inner-dialogic utterances (“What would they say of her in the Stores when they found out that she had run away with a fellow?”, “No! No! No! It was impossible.”) Thereafter we conclude that the type of narration is unidirectional. The scenery plays its significant role in the story. It can be exemplified by such details as the “invasion” of evening, which is directly connected with the inner, psychological state of the protagonist who is thinking of her departed childhood and the occuring enshadowment of her life, her fate with the prosaic unattractive actuality...