In his short story, "Eveline", James Joyce discusses the difficult decision of when the time is right to leave home and start your own life. The main character, Eveline, has to decide whether to leave to Buenos Aires with her boyfriend Frank, or to keep her promise to her deceased mother of keeping the home together as long as she could. The story, told in third person point of view, starts off with Eveline recalling her childhood and how much better thing where then. As a child her mother was still alive and her father had treated her better than he did at the present time. Then she describes her room. Her description shows that everything in her life is old. The way she questions where all the dust came from and describes the photograph on the wall as yellowing just shows how her life is passing her by without her even noticing. This is just one more reason for her to lean more towards moving awa....

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