This Summary is a well structured summary of the short story Eveline. The Summary consists in the form of a mind map and explains what happens in the story, who all the characters are, what their personality trait marks are and also the main points in the short story and more.... The summary is don...
The name of the main character Story takes place in Dublin, Ireland where the main 1. Eveline=
Story is about Eveline , her life, her relationship with character grows up 19 year old girl
her father, siblings and Frank It is during the early 20th century She is emotionally abused by her father after the death of her mother
It focuses on her suffering in the hands of her father Her father and siblings do not shoew her love
and the decisions she must make about her life. She meets Frank whom she loves and believes running away with him
wil bring about change in het situation
Summary: Tone: She works at Miss Gavan’s store and also suffers emotional abuse from
Depressed her
Eveline, the main character, is a young
Harsh She feels that the change of scenery will malke the abuse come to an
women who lives in Dublin with her father
end
Her mother is dead
She is dreaming of a better life beyond the
Eveline She is indecisive at the end she does not fulfil her desire to escape
when she cannot board the ship and lets Frank leave by himself.
shores of Ireland such that she plans to
2. Eveline’s father=
elope with Frank, a sailor who is her secret
He is always drunk.
lover and start a new life in Argentina
He takes all of Eveline’s wages/salary on weekends and abuses her.
With her mother gone, Eveline is
It is implied in the story that he sexually abuses Eveline.
responsible for the day-to-day running of
Themes: He is not a caring father
the household
He treats his girl child differently from how he treats his boys.
Her father is drunk and only reluctantly
1. Different Forms of death= 3. Frank=
tips up his share of the weekly
Figuratively and literally discussed in this short story. He is kind and open-hearted
housekeeping money, and her brother
She also describes those who left Dublin and never asserts He is a loving boyfriend.
Harry is busy working and is away a lot on
her emotional response to these happenings. From this, He has worked on a few ships
busness
meaning can be inferred, which is that those people die when He is well-travelled.
Her other brother Ernest is dead
they leave Dublin. He can sing.
Eveline herself keeps down a job working
She fears that if she leaves Dublin, she will be considered He tries to take Eveline away from her father’s abuse
in a shop
dead. She fears that if she elopes and gets married, her He leaves alone when Eveline changes her mind.
One Saturday night, when she asks her
marriage will be like death, she will lose her identity and she 4. Eveline’s Mother=
father for some money, he abuses her
will be no more
verbally especially since he is always drunk She suffers abuse in the hands of her husband.
Eveline’s husband will become her master and identity, and
When he eventually hands over his She teaches her children honesty and Catholicism
she will ‘drown’ in unknown seas
housekeeping money, Eveline has to go to She is dead.
the shops and buy the food for the Sunday
2. Nostalgia 5. Miss Gavan=
dinner at the last min. She feels that if she leaves, she will have to start a new life
She owns a shop.
Eveline is tired of this life, and so she and and lose her identity.
She is an employer for Eveline
Frank book onto a ship leaving for Beunos She is ready to sacrifice her life, which is a reality but does
She mistreats Eveline in front of people/customers
Aires, Argentina. not want to sacrifice her memories.
6. Harry=
But as she is just about to board the ship, He is Eveline’s brother.
Eveline suffers a failure of resolve, and He works in a church decorating business
Mood:
cannot go through with it 7. Ernest=
Without saying a word, Eveline turns Sad, Emotional (initially) Eveline’s brother who died.
around and goes home, leaving Frank to
Optimistic (when a decision to elope is made) 8. The priest=
board the ship alone.
Remorse/guilt (at the end) He appears in a picture, hanging on the wall in the Hills house.
He has moved to Melbourne.
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