Concetti Chiave
- Eveline reminisces about her childhood, feeling nostalgic for happier times when her mother was alive and her father was kinder.
- At nineteen, she works as a shop assistant in a large warehouse, facing mistreatment from coworkers.
- She lives with her father and brothers, fulfilling a promise to care for them and handing over her wages to her father.
- Eveline's boyfriend Frank, a seaman, offers her a new life in Buenos Aires, where they plan to marry.
- Despite her desire to escape her oppressive life, Eveline ultimately cannot bring herself to leave Dublin, abandoning Frank at the port.
Eveline
Eveline looks at from the window the street where played since she was a child. To that time was happy, the father wasnt bad and the mother was still in life. Eveline is a nineteen girl who works as shop assistant in a big warehouse, where she is maltreated by the other shop assistant. At home she helps the brothers and the father despotic as she had promised to her mother. She gave the wage to the father. Eveline has a boyfriend Frank, a seaman who he had found luck to Buenos Aires and was there on holiday.
The father had understood everything and had forbidden to meet him. Sad for her life she want to move from Dublin to Buenos Aires, where Eveline and Frank will marry. At the port she doesnt go and leaves Frank alone on the ship.