Read the following excerpt from the short story "Eveline" by James Joyce. Which claim does the passage suggest? "Home! She looked round the room, reviewing all its familiar objects which she had dusted once a week for so many years, wondering where on earth all the dust came from. Perhaps she would never see again those familiar objects from which she had never dreamed of being divided. And yet during all those years she had never found out the name of the priest whose yellowing photograph hung on the wall above the broken harmonium beside the coloured print of the promises made to Blessed Margaret Mary Alacoque. He had been a school friend of her father. Whenever he showed the photograph to a visitor her father used to pass it with a casual word: 'He is in Melbourne now.' She had consented to go away, to leave her home. Was that wise? She tried to weigh each side of the question. In her home anyway she had shelter and food; she had those whom she had known all her life about her. Of course she had to work hard, both in the house and at business. What would they say of her in the Stores when they found out that she had run away with a fellow?" The narrator's fiancé will elevate her standard of living. The narrator is excited to have her own home. The narrator resents the home in which she was raised and the poverty and hardship she experienced there. The narrator is emotionally torn over her decision to leave home to marry her fiancé.
Read the following excerpt from the short story "Eveline" by James Joyce. Which claim does the passage suggest?
"Home! She looked round the room, reviewing all its familiar objects which she had dusted once a week for so many years, wondering where on earth all the dust came from. Perhaps she would never see again those familiar objects from which she had never dreamed of being divided. And yet during all those years she had never found out the name of the priest whose yellowing photograph hung on the wall above the broken harmonium beside the coloured print of the promises made to Blessed Margaret Mary Alacoque. He had been a school friend of her father. Whenever he showed the photograph to a visitor her father used to pass it with a casual word:
'He is in Melbourne now.'
She had consented to go away, to leave her home. Was that wise? She tried to weigh each side of the question. In her home anyway she had shelter and food; she had those whom she had known all her life about her. Of course she had to work hard, both in the house and at business. What would they say of her in the Stores when they found out that she had run away with a fellow?"
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The narrator's fiancé will elevate her standard of living. |
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The narrator is excited to have her own home. |
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The narrator resents the home in which she was raised and the poverty and hardship she experienced there. |
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The narrator is emotionally torn over her decision to leave home to marry her fiancé. |
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