ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Explanation and Analysis-Street Organ: Before Eveline goes to meet Frank at the station, the story uses auditory imagery to describe the sound of a street organ that Eveline hears playing outside her window: “Down far in the avenue she could hear a street organ playing. She knew the air.

Detailed explanation-2: -The sound of a street organ then reminds her of her mother’s death, and her thoughts change course. She remembers her mother’s uneventful, sad life, and passionately embraces her decision to escape the same fate by leaving with Frank. At the docks in Dublin, Eveline waits in a crowd to board the ship with Frank.

Detailed explanation-3: -Down far in the avenue she could hear a street organ playing. She knew the air Strange that it should come that very night to remind her of the promise to her mother, her promise to keep the home together as long as she could.

Detailed explanation-4: -However despite her promise to her mother ‘to keep the home together as long as she could, ’ Eveline’s memory of her mother’s death acts as the impetus for her to finally realise that she has to leave her father and move to Buenos Ayres.

Detailed explanation-5: -Harry Hill Harry is the older brother to whom Eveline has written one of the letters she is holding during her scene of reflection. He works as a church decorator, lives somewhere in the countryside south of Dublin (which comprises most of Ireland), and regularly sends money to his sister.