ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -(i) Frank was a sailor and was the lover of Eveline. He wants to marry Eveline and live with her in Buenos Aires. She agreed to live with him in secret. Eveline’s father quarrels with him because he was not giving his approval for this relationship.

Detailed explanation-2: -She has fallen for a sailor named Frank who promises to take her with him to Buenos Aires. Before leaving to meet Frank, she hears an organ grinder outside, which reminds her of a melody that played on an organ on the day her mother died and the promise she made to her mother to look after the home.

Detailed explanation-3: -This passivity is not surprising since Eveline herself as a character is in her profession as a housemaid in the typical “self-sacrifying nursing role” we find women throughout Dubliners in.

Detailed explanation-4: -In James Joyce’s story Eveline, Frank was the character who was in a courtship with Eveline. Frank invites Eveline to become his wife in Buenos Ayres.

Detailed explanation-5: -Eveline’s older brother who is now dead and was too “grown up” to play in the field with her and the other neighbor children when she was little. She mentions that Ernest “had been her favorite.” The only other sibling that Eveline names.