Concetti Chiave
- The story lacks a traditional plot structure, focusing instead on Eveline's introspective flashbacks.
- Eveline's thoughts are often triggered by external stimuli, such as sounds or environmental elements.
- Her mother's death serves as a cautionary memory, influencing Eveline's fear of repeating a miserable life.
- Eveline struggles with inertia and lacks the strength and support to pursue a different future.
- The sea symbolizes both the possibility of escape and the potential for destruction, reflecting Eveline's internal conflict.
It has no traditional plot: there is no introduction, that is replaced by Eveline’s flashbacks which provide information about her and her life, there is, in fact, a great number of lines concentrated on her innerself; the story is closed because nothing is changed and nothing will change.
Eveline thoughts are activated from something external like impression from the street or from the room, music or natural elements.
At the beginning there is the same air she had heard on the last night of her mother’s life, it reminds her that her mother’s death had been the tragic conclusion of her miserable life, and she didn’t want to spend her life as her mother, but her own inertia (symbol of paralysis) prevented Eveline from leaving her home.
She doesn’t have the hope on a better future life and she lacks in fortitude: she isn’t strong enough to try something new and she has no help from religion or from education.
Joyce thinks it is impossible for anybody to change his life in a city dominated by the experience of spiritual paralysis.
The sea in the end is a symbol of escape, but at the same time of destruction; the stores represent the relationship with her oppression of the place; the house represents the relationship with her dad.
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