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In the short story, “Eveline,” James Joyce introduces us to the life of a young woman named Eveline. She has the opportunity to escape with Frank, the man she thinks she loves, to a faraway country in search of a new life. Instead, she decides to stay in the ....

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.... that “sometimes he could be very nice,” just because she remembers him making her laugh once, and other time when he took care of her when she was sick. These good memories about her father look insignificant compared to what she has to do for him. Eveline also has to support the mistreatments of her abusive father even when she is asking him for money to buy groceries. Especially on Saturday nights when he is “usually fairly bad,” meaning he is drunk. Eveline alone asks herself if it is wise to leave. She thinks that at her home she has “shelter and food; she had those whom she had known all her life.” We know she does n ....