Eveline

A real down to earth story, this doesn't seem to be unrealistic in anyway. A girl who has lost her mother, who is swept off her feet by a man with a tanned face, whisking her off her feet to some far off paradise. But to me she learns the lesson many girls are not so lucky to learn. This girl, Eve for short, is not stupid. personally, i feel that she stayed for three reasons. One being she fells she could still take care of her family, fulfilling her promise to her mom; "to keep the home together as long as she could" (Joyce). The second reason is I feel that she realized she was not in love with him ,but in love with the idea of loving him. Also, i feel that she is just to terrified. We all get to the point in life when we must move on from our families and our small life, and she just can not do it.