Stylistic Analysis Of James Joyces 'Eveline'

Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject English Language and LiteratureStudies Linguistics printed singlesided grade 17 University of TrierAnglistik co... » 

Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject English Language and LiteratureStudies Linguistics printed singlesided grade 17 University of TrierAnglistik course Literary Linguistics language English abstract In 1903James Joyce wrote the novel Dubliners which consists of short stories aboutselected Irish people portraying their lives in Dublin. Eveline is one of theshort stories of adolescence in this collection as it deals with a youngnineteen year old woman named Eveline who is confronted with the decision onwhether she should leave Dublin with her boyfriend Frank and start a new lifein Buenos Aires or stay in her old habits. The story is written from a thirdperson limited point of view and because of this the reader is able to perceiveEvelines world through her perspective. The reader witnesses how Eveline triesto discover herself and her own wishes. But her way of initiation is meant tolead to an surprising conclusion by Eveline in the end. What is so fascinatingabout Eveline is not only the plot itself but the way Joyce illustrates thesituation of Eveline linguistically through his way of writing. Through variouslinguistic means Joyce pictures Evelines fear of taking a chance fear of theunknown and of change. «