Opportunity: To Take, or Not to Take

Title: Opportunity: To Take, or Not to Take
Category: Literature / English | Words: 553 | Pages: 2.4 (approximately 235 words/page)

Opportunity: To Take, or Not to Take

In James Joyce’s “Eveline”, the protagonist decides whether she should stay home with her father, the antagonist, or leave with a kind and loving sailor, Frank. Eveline is a nineteen-year old who is on the brink on womanhood and can’t choose whether to go or stay because of her immaturity. Currently, she is living with her father where he treats her poorly and even takes away her money. Trying to escape from the …showed first 75 words of 553 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 553 total…wages to her father. “Miss Hill, don’t’ you see these ladies are waiting?” proves that Miss Gavin is really bossy and says this also to humiliate her in front of her customers. If she would move to Buenos Ayres with Frank, she would be treated with respect, unlike her mother. Frank, Eveline’s savior, gives her the opportunity of a lifetime to leave her abusive father and to sail across the ocean with him.

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