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In James Joyce, Eveline, the story is about Eveline who has had a rough and a hard life growing up. Throughout the story Eveline “has consented to go away, to leave her home� (4). She finally meets Frank who is her lover and he is suppose to be taking her away to marry him and "to live with him in Buenos Ayres" (6). However when she meets him at the station and they are set to board the ship, Eveline suddenly decides she cannot go with Frank, because "[h]e was drowning her into them: he would drown her" (7). But Eveline's rejection of Frank is not just a rejection of love, but also a rejection of a new life abroad and a rejection to escape from her hard life at home. By not moving into the east with Frank, Eveline gives up escape, life, and love for the past, duty, and a promise.
From the story's opening, she is passive and tired (4) and remembers old neighbors like "the Waters" who have since escaped east "to England" (4). She looks forward to "going to go away like the......

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