<Tab/>Imagine growing up in a house where every day you wake up wishing the day before was a nightmare. You get out of bed, put on your clothes, and know all you have to look forward to is being beaten, threatened and yelled at by one of your parents while you're at home. "Eviline", a story by James Joyce, is about a young girl (Eviline) who is never beaten, but "…showed first 75 words of 431 total…

…showed last 75 words of 431 total…also does not leave home because of the people she will leave and because of her promise to her mother. If Eviline leaves home she sill be leaving her father brothers and other siblings. Eviline will miss Ernest, Harry, and even though her father was abusive she would miss him too. When she is nearing the boat with Frank "Eviline talks about two white letters, she says "the white of two letters grew indistinct" (Joyce 5).