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    A Study Guide for James Joyce's "Eveline"
    A Study Guide for James Joyce's "Eveline"
    A Study Guide for James Joyce's "Eveline"
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    A Study Guide for James Joyce's "Eveline"

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    A Study Guide for James Joyce's "Eveline," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateJul 15, 2016
    ISBN9781535822862
    A Study Guide for James Joyce's "Eveline"

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      A Study Guide for James Joyce's "Eveline" - Gale

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      Eveline

      James Joyce

      1914

      Introduction

      Groundbreaking in form and of great psychological depth, James Joyce's Eveline is a short but important story in Joyce's first major work of fiction, the short-story collection Dubliners (London, 1914). Eveline is a portrait of a young woman torn between her obligations to stay and look after her family or escape with her lover to a new life across the sea, and this struggle is developed intricately and realistically. But the story is also thematically ambitious and highly symbolic, containing allusions to Christianity, mythology, Irish politics, and Dublin's social conditions, and exhibiting many characteristics common to the newly developing literary movement of modernism.

      Set in the closing years of nineteenth-century Dublin, Ireland, Eveline is very much about the political and social climate of this era. With its majority Catholic population suffering the disgrace and depression of economic and social decline and with no end to English rule in sight, Dublin Catholics were experiencing a spiritual and moral crisis. Part of a series of stories that portray the soul of this city, the publication of Eveline was delayed for nine years, until 1914, because publishers were worried about Joyce's controversial methods and themes.

      Author Biography

      Born February 2, 1882, in Dublin, Ireland, Joyce was the eldest of ten children in a family that went from prosperity to poverty in a short time. He attended two private Jesuit schools, and the religion he learned there influenced much of his writing. Joyce graduated in 1902 with a degree in modern languages from University College, Dublin, and then left for Paris to study medicine but instead spent his time writing. He returned to Dublin in 1903 because his mother was fatally ill. It was also during this time that Joyce began a lifelong relationship with Nora Barnacle, whom he married in 1931.

      By the time Joyce brought Nora with him to continental Europe, he had already begun work on some of the short stories for Dubliners. In 1905, Joyce submitted the first version

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