A Tragic Character In James Joyce's Eveline As A Sympathetic Character

he story Eveline is by James Joyce. It is about a girl named Eveline who must make a decision that will impact her life in either a positive or negative way. Eveline is a sympathetic character because she has an abusive father, she is always unhappy, and she does not seem to like the way her life is. Her life is hard because she must go to work and take care of the house and her siblings. These are reasons why I feel that Eveline is a sympathetic character.
The first evidence that supports why Eveline is a sympathetic character is that she has an abusive father, who abuses her and siblings almost daily. The author states, “Her father used often to hunt them in out of the field with his blackthorn stick;” (Joyce 3). This means that when Eveline and her siblings were young children, they used to play with the kids of their neighborhood in this large field outside their community. When her father saw her and siblings playing with the

The author states, “Miss Gavan would be glad. She had always had an edge on her, especially whenever there were people listening” (Joyce 3). This means that the manager of the store that she worked at, always found a way to yell at her and make her do loads of work and embarrassing her at work. The second claim that supports Eveline as a sympathetic character. “People would treat her with respect then. She would not be treated as her mother had been” (Joyce 3). This means that her mother probably had being abused by her father and was treated badly too. The third claim that supports Eveline as a sympathetic character. “Besides, the invariable squabble for money on Saturday nights had begun to weary her unspeakably” (Joyce 4). This means that she had to get money somehow, because she was not getting payed enough money at work. These are the three claims that support Eveline as sympathetic