In the short story, "Eveline," James Joyce introduces us to the life of a young woman named Eveline. She has the opportunity to escape with Frank, the man she thinks she loves, to a faraway country in search of a new life. Instead, she decides to stay in the dreary and gloomy life she already knows. To understand Eveline's final decision to stay we have to analyze the reasons that prevent Eveline from pursuing a …showed first 75 words of 780 total…

…showed last 75 words of 780 total…to her dying mother to "keep the home together as long as she could." The love for her mother is too strong to break that promise.         In conclusion Eveline chooses the "odour of dusty cretonne" over a new, but unknown life because the reasons for staying slightly overwhelm the reasons for leaving. For this era her decision might seem bizarre or even foolish; but making that decision she does what is logical for that epoch.