Eveline: Fear of Happiness In the short story “Eveline”, James Joyce portrays a young woman trying to gain her own happiness without walking in the fatal foot stets of her mother. In exchange for the abusive life with her father, Eveline is faced with the chance at happiness, fleeing to Buenos Ayres with a “sailor chap”. Being deprived of the love and affection she needed, Eveline lacks the courage and strength to find her own happiness. Knowing she is following the same path as her mother, Eveline fears happiness in her own life. Eveline fears being enthralled as her mother was. “Then she would be married-she, Eveline. People would treat her with respect then. She would not be treated as her mother had been” Eveline’s mother was not respected because she was female, not because she was married and had children. Eveline hopes to ver away from the female status in society, a....

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