Review short story Eveline by james joyce

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15 November 2013

Eveline

This short story by james joyce talked about a girl eveline who is struggle to pick between family and boyfriend, and should make decision, she was trapped in the situation that is not easy to decide which one would be the best decision, it was the hard decision she has ever made, if he choose frank, that is mean she would go with him and left her family, if she choose her family that is mean she will loose her true love forever, this situation is a nightmare for everyone because choosing Family and someone we love so much it is not easy.

What will you choose if you are in her position? Choose someone who will spending your life together? Or choosing family, parents who raised you, and siblings who is really care about you? And if she choose one of them and something happen later, she would regret it for the rest f her life, afterall eveline choose her family, and left frank, and it was the Hardest Decision she has ever made, it could not imagine if eveline is real person and the story was not fiction, when she must sacrifice her own happiness and not be selfish to take care of her family, because she is the only person that her beloved mom depend on.

Even though it was not mentioned what happend with eveline after frank gone, but i am certain that it is not gonna easy to face it, ruined the planned they made together, and spending her rest of life wondering where is frank now, what he is doing? With whom?.

In my opinion James Joyce really brilliant, it is simple story, but has a lot of meaning, like loyality, sacrifice, and pain, all of it combained together in this story, and the moral value i can take after read this story is, family is the most important in our life, even tought we found our own happiness but family is our priority, and where we will end up in all situation, and family a place that you can depend on.

and this is my review based on short story by James Joyce :)
hope u enjoy it as much as i enjoy it when i wrote it