“Eveline" In the short story, “Eveline,” by James Joyce, the protagonist, Eveline, demonstrates what it is like to be a woman in the early twentieth-century Dublin. Eveline is a young woman who is forced to take on the roles of the house after her mother’s passing. Until she is offered the chance to sail away with the man she loves and start over. Eveline’s realizations and reactions throughout the story illuminated how being trapped in women’s powerless roles in society prevented her from moving forward. Eveline was the caretaker of her abusive father and two children. She lived her life cooking, cleaning, and providing for them day after day. When Eveline had an inclination to seek for her own happiness, however, she feels guilty for putting