ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS

JAMES JOYCE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What is Eveline holding in her lap as she looks out the window at the start of “Eveline”?
A
a white cat
B
letters to her family
C
a bowl of soup
D
a china horse
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -As Eveline reviews her decision to embark on a new life, she holds in her lap two letters, one to her father and one to her brother Harry.

Detailed explanation-2: -Eveline holds Frank’s hand at the station, feeling the crowd about her and catching sight of the great dark mass of the boat. She prays for guidance and wonders if she can back out after all that Frank has done for her. The boat’s whistle startles her, and she feels Frank pulling her, urging her to come with him.

Detailed explanation-3: -Eveline is a young woman living in Dublin with her father.

Detailed explanation-4: -Her word becomes a bond that she cannot break. She must fulfill “her duty” to both her family and her mother (Joyce 514). of duty and her love for her family make her stay. Unfortunately, “the life she returns to is a repetition of her mother’s life” (Walz!

Detailed explanation-5: -The story. A young woman, Eveline, of about nineteen years of age sits by her window, waiting to leave home. She muses on the aspects of her life that are driving her away, while “in her nostrils was the odor of dusty cretonne". Her mother has died as has her older brother Ernest.

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