Choices! Every human being has choices to make. In the story "Eveline" by author James Joyce (1882-1941) Eveline is given the opportunity to make a choice on how her life can be. She has the choice to leave with the man she loves or stay with her father. Eveline made the choice or staying with her father, which could or has been the biggest mistake of her life. As a result she will go through mental stress and problems with her father. If she had left she could have earned more respect than her mother ever did, and also she could have lived a better life with Frank.
As a child Eveline grew up with two older brothers, Ernest and Harry. Both brothers would get punished when they were being bad, but her father never dared to raise his hand on her for being the fact s
Eveline thought long and hard on whether she should stay or go with Frank. She would sit so quietly and intensively and listen to his stories about far-away lands and adventures. She had thoughts racing through her mind about her living those adventures with Frank. From the day she met Frank she always believed that life would treat her better when she was with Frank. She also knew that her life would be better.
When Eveline was deepened with sorrow on what choice to make she would remember when she met Frank, and all the happiness he brought her. He once took her to the cinema to see "The Bohemian Girl". She remembers sitting in the "unaccustomed part of the theatre with him" because that area was only for women who had escorts. Eveline then remembers that her mother did not receive that
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