"Eveline"

This writing reminded me of "Angela's Ashes" a novel by Frank McCourt, an imigrant writer form Ireland, the setting is very similar. Eveline is in conflict with weather to leave her homeland and run off with her lover to Buenos Ayres, or stay and be misserable with her father and the Ireland dust!

She lived in poverty, the dirty lanes of Ireland with it's dampness and crowded living conditions. Her friends had all gone and some had died. She felt dead herself. In the end, it seems she chose the familiar old mustly life, instead of taking on the unknown feeling of a new life.


Cynthia Strader