Eveline by James Joyce
This is a short story which was about a girl called Eveline and her decision to leave or stay in the environment she is living in. Eveline's life was not as easy as others. It was hard and difficult and she faced violence from her father from when she was young. The father did abuse her physically but Eveline was a victim of emotional abuse. After her mother's death, he would emotionally blackmail her and say what he would do to her is only for her dead mother's sake. All the money she earned, she gave it to her father but her father would not give his money to her saying he won't give his hard-earned money to spend. The only times he gave money to her was when he wanted her to buy dinner for him. But a chance came for her to leave this kind of life and move into a new environment, when her boyfriend, Frank asked to move with him overseas but when the decision came for her to leave or stay "she did not find it a wholly undesirable life." When it was time for her to leave, she left only Frank to leave and "gave him no sign of love or farewell or recognition," and she was reluctant to travel. She decided to stay where she was, even with the negative actions she has to face from her father.
In this story, I recognized that even with a family that may be horrible and where you have complications, you still may have the heart of caring for them and not wanting to leave them, but this may be due to other reasons, such as in this story, Eveline was thinking of her mother who past away, but also her father.
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