James Joyce’s “Eveline” tells the story of a teenage girl who has had a bad life and is given the chance to leave with someone who is seemingly the man of her dreams. He is nice to her, takes her places, and treats her like a queen. This was something she never got to experience during her childhood. Everything seemed to be going well until the very end of the story. In the end, …showed first 75 words of 973 total…

…showed last 75 words of 973 total…about everything. He might not have been taking her to Buenos Ayres. There were a million questions running through Eveline’s head the whole time she was seeing Frank, and all of them seemed to hit her at once when she was about to board the ship for Buenos Ayres with Frank. The culmination of these questions and fears running in and out of her mind was what ultimately led to her decision to stay.