Eveline

  In Eveline by James Joyce, Eveline faces a dilemma.  She can either choose to stay at home as a working daughter, or run off with her lover, Frank.  She begins to meet with Frank secretly because her father disapproves of her seeing him.  This causes Eveline to review her situation and she tends to hold on to her past and to the possibility of new experiences.  She is unable to make a decision.  Eveline is use to her life of repetition and helping the family.  When Frank "rushed beyond the barrier and called her to follow", Eveline was stuck and decided to stay (222).  Her one chance at a new life slipped through her fingertips.  Eveline is now stuck in a world of repetition.  She will continue to do what she has done all her life.  Her inability to make a decision caused her to have no decision at all, but to be a dutiful daughter.