The story Eveline is one of those stories that you may wish to go inside it, grab the girl’s head and shake some sense of selfrespect out of her. The story begins with this young woman named Eveline who was sat at her window and was thinking about leaving her house. After that she began to think about her childhood memories, about her friends and neighbors, her life when her mother was alive and the field were she use to play with her friends.. For her everything has changed because in that field a man build a house, some friends have died and other left to other countries., one of her brother left the house and another died but more importantly her mother died.
When her mother was alive the family was united and very happy, and the father was very kind back then. When her mother was dying, Eveline made a promise to her that she was going to maintain the home together as long as she could. After the mother died Eveline took care about her little brothers, her father and worked at a store. The second oldest brother left the house and went to an other country. Eveline became the heart of the family, her father after the death of his wife, became a harsh man and he did not treat well Eveline. Then she felt in love of a sailor named Frank, he was a very good man and love Eveline. Her father did not consented the relation and they have to meet secretly. Frank propose to her to leave in another country to be married and start a new life. Eveline knew that I she went with him she would be respected and was going to have better life. In the last t moment of the stories she went with her Frank to the port, but at the last second she refuse to go with him and decided to stay.
Many people will wonder why. Why she did not live?. Eveline had a harsh live, she have to take care of two little brother and have to work to maintain the family and his old man, for what?, to take crap from his old man everyday. What about her life, her feelings and her dignity? I think that Eveline did not leave her house because of many things. Some of it could be that she wanted to maintain her promise with her mother, she wanted to maintain the family united and because she may fear a new life in a new land and she wanted to be were her memories come from and with the people that know her. Another reason could be that she did not love Frank or her feelings were not that strong to go with him.
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I agree with the fact that she made the wrong decision.I also think she should of first spoken to her fiancee before doing what she did and made there could of been away were both could of had some agreement of some sort .In away they could of just made responseble desicion were they could of both been happy.
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