Eveline Questions - Dr. Aparna Dharwadker PDF

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1. What are the qualities of the narrative voice in this story? To what extent does this voice guide our response to the characters? Point of view: 3rd person omniscient narrator, objectivity Adopted the voice of Eveline, reveals her thoughts and feelings Ventriloquism, inferiority Victimage - home is where the protagonists need to run away from 2. What kind of portrait of the family emerges in the course of the story? How much do we find out about the family despite the very short length of the narrative? Oldest brother dead, other older brother always gone, 2 younger children she looks after Mother died, dad is cruel 3. What are the features of city life that also emerge in the story? Do they belong specifically to Dublin? She looks out her window and sees people, children playing on the playground Works in a dry goods store, doesn’t get along well with her employers The story is more about inferiority than about the setting, setting isn’t so important City is not the place of liberation 4. What does home mean to Eveline, in the past and in the present? Why is she so anxious about leaving it? Home in the past was better when her mother was alive Home in the present is difficult because of her motherly responsibilities she had to adopt Home in the present is not what she wants her life to be She is anxious because it’s all she knows, if she leaves can she return? 5. Why does Eveline not leave with Frank at the end? Is her intuitive decision a sign of victimage or an assertion of autonomy? She realizes Victimage of location (home) Joyce exercised the heroism of departure but not Eveline...