The Theme of Eveline: The Aspect of Modern Human Existence

The story "Eveline", which is written by James Joyce, opens in a seemingly nostalgia but when it ends, the heroine is stricken with a suddenly frenzy of distress. The fist part of the story is unfolded with Eveline's thought from the present back to the past memories, or forth to the dream of future. Even we are only able to see the action and plot from Eveline's relatively subjected angle version, we still get a …

…the cage. So after all, human being deserves the paradox because of their limitedness. The story of Eveline is simple in plot and unpretentiously artful in language. It reveals for us a modern human state of mind. Eveline's tragedy, as of may others, is confinement and indecisiveness. People come to see that individual is not the master of himself. Again this favorite theme of modern literature is successfully flashed out of this short story "Eveline".