eveline.pptVIP

Structure of the Story 1: background introduction. 2: think of the two sides of going away. decide to go 3: think of the duty and responsibility to the family hesitant to go 4: frightened by the misery of the mother decide to go 5: totally at a loss about whether to go or not to go and at last fail to go the brief introduction of the story Eveline is one of the earliest and best of Joyces short stories,excerpting from the Dubliners. The story tells about a young lady whose name is Eveline Hill. Her life is circumscribed（限制） by her dull job as store clerk and her responsibilities as house keeper and surrogate(代理的） mother for her siblings.（兄弟姐妹） To escape from a life of entrapment（困境）, she plans to elope（私奔） with her boy friend, Frank, to Buneos Ayres, where she believes she can get respect, the stable home life, and the tender love she lacks in Dublin. However, Irish paralysis（麻痹）, the conservative religious ideas and her timidity keep her from eloping with her lover. What is the conflict in the story? The conflict is between Eveline’s desire to leave and her duty to the family or between her desire for freedom and her conservative ideas. Where is the epiphany? It occurs where Eveline suddenly realizes that she has the right to happiness and Frank will give her life and love as well (para. 18). But her epiphany is not complete, because she is awakened to her right but does not really take action to seek happiness. What point of view does the author use in the story? He uses the third person limited point of view. The central consciousness is Eveline. That is to say, the narrator states the story from the third person point of view, but he limits himself only to one characters experience, thoughts and feelings. The illumination of the situation, events and characters is through the main characters mind. Here we observe events and get information throug