Scarica Eveline - Dubliners James Joyce e più Appunti in PDF di Inglese solo su Docsity! EVELINE - DUBLINERS 1914 - From Dubliners, a devoted collection of stories which can be subdivided in three sections (according to the age of the main character). James Joyce was a Dubliner himself, he had observed his fellow citizens and had come to a realization about them. - We don’t find the stream of consciousness, but there’s the INTERIOR MONOLOGUE —> just on these occasions the reader is able to read the characters mind. • EXTERNAL NARRATOR. - She’s nineteen years old, she already has a lot of responsibilities. She has a job to earn some money for her family. • She isn’t happy, she is a shop assistant and she felt humiliated by her boss regularly, also in front of customers. - She lives with her father and her younger siblings, whom she made sure they went to school regularly and had their meals. • Eveline’s FATHER is a violent man, he used to beat her brothers, but he doesn’t hit her. In her memories he is violent, he isn’t a learnt man. On Saturday evening he usually gets drunk, this makes the relationship difficult. She is in charge of the whole family, she followed the habit of giving her father everything she earned with her job. The father though had find a way of tormenting her. He gave her money only to buy Sunday’s dinner. Sort of PSYCHOLOGICAL TORTURE. Same fight every week “squander the money”. - We also see her father in the very beginning thanks to her memories —> quiete rude man, very strict “her father used often to hunt them in out of the field with his blackthorn stick”. - FRANK is her soon to be husband. He is a positive character. He’s kind, honest, open-hearted. He has prepared a new better life for her in Buenos Ayres. • Her relationship with Frank is really strong and deep “he would give life to her, perhaps love”. She’s a bit desperate for her current situation. “He would have SAVED her”. • She still need protection “fold her in his arms”. She had to grow up too soon because of her mom’s death. She hadn’t seen this protection in the relationship between her father and mother. - Two letters of her lap, one to Harry and one to her father. Two distinct memories of her father. • She had promised to her dying mother she would take care of her siblings (very common at the time). Eveline honored her promise. - In the final part, there is another example of interior monologue “as she mused …”. • The reader doesn’t read through the mediation of the narrator, but directly what Eveline thinks. Memory of the night where her mother dies, she associates music to the memory, also when her mother was dying there was music. She swore against the Italian musicians, extremely realistic (prejudice that immigrants take jobs away). • Eveline’s mother dies saying two obscure words, in Gaelic “Derevausn Seraun”. Eveline realizes how tough her life had been, being a mother and being a wife. Eveline has got the moment of her EPIPHANY (revelation - manifestation), she probably has the right of having and wishing for something better than her mother. - She has a HOPE for HAPPINESS with Frank. He would have given her everything that was missing from her Dublin’s life.
