Eveline
Girl's given name
Eveline is a feminine given name, a variant of Evelyn or derived from the Old French Aveline.
It gained literary recognition from James Joyce's short story "Eveline" in *Dubliners*, about a young woman paralyzed by indecision: She named her daughter Eveline after her grandmother.
Loss of muscle function
- epiphanySudden profound insight
- domesticityLife centered around home
- resignationVoluntary relinquishment of position
- indecisionFailure to decide
yearning · escape · duty · sacrifice · dilemma · stagnation · repression · entrapment
Ireland's capital inhabitants
- modernismFavoring contemporary approaches
- stream of consciousnessNarrative mimicking uninterrupted thought
- DublinIrish capital city
- Irish literatureWriting from Ireland
epiphany · paralysis · realism · naturalism · Catholic guilt · interior monologue · symbolism · literary analysis
Act of going away
- diasporaScattered population sharing origins
- homelandOne's native land
- voyageJourney by sea
- escapeFlight from captivity
opportunity · ship · Buenos Aires · Frank · passage · farewell · dock · steamer
Irish capital city
- CatholicPapal church adherent
- Irish SeaBody separating two islands
- povertySevere lack of resources
- tenementMulti-unit urban dwelling
chapel · mass · priest · boarding house · Victorian · Edwardian · colonialism · working class
paralysis
Loss of muscle function
- epiphanySudden profound insight
- domesticityLife centered around home
- resignationVoluntary relinquishment of position
indecision · yearning · escape · duty · sacrifice · dilemma · stagnation · repression · entrapment · constraint
Dubliners
Ireland's capital inhabitants
- modernismFavoring contemporary approaches
- stream of consciousnessNarrative mimicking uninterrupted thought
- DublinIrish capital city
Irish literature · epiphany · paralysis · realism · naturalism · Catholic guilt · interior monologue · symbolism · literary analysis · canon
departure
Act of going away
escape · opportunity · ship · Buenos Aires · Frank · passage · farewell · dock · steamer · crossing
Dublin
Irish capital city
tenement · chapel · mass · priest · boarding house · Victorian · Edwardian · colonialism · working class