The heroine of the story Eveline lives a psychological conflict between her sense of bitterness in her miserable reality that her father dominates in his harsh presence in his dealings and his control even over her wages, which symbolize her financial independence and her sense of responsibility towards her younger brothers after the death of her mother, who does not want to be a repetitive example of her, and her desire to be her Her private life with a young sailor established himself in Buenos Aires, Argentina. But the future that Frank offers seems ambiguous, as he struggled as a boy on ships until he was able to own a home there, and it doesn’t seem that life with him there will be easy. Eveline works diligently in her home, as she works in shops, and as we discover she works as it seems as a saleswoman in her, but her boss treats her in a rude manner that makes her want to escape from him.

We notice in the story the change of the narrator’s language of expression with the development of the plot. In the first half of the story, we notice his focus on highlighting Eveline’s suffering, worries, and torments, and the focus on showing the father in a compelling and oppressive manner and her suffering at work in the shop, then soon the tone changes and he begins to see beautiful things or A human dimension in the midst of suffering, for her father is not as bad as the narrator presents, but he has caring touches sometimes. It seems clear in Evelyn’s words and thoughts in the second section that the severity of the suffering is not as it was portrayed for us, and this is an indication that prepares the reader and prepares him psychologically to accept the apostasy in the heroine’s plan and to retreat from the change in the image of escape.

The story deals with the topic of children’s relationship with parents, the idea of ​​social rebellion, and the struggle between social and moral commitment and between self-search and love away from the influence of the homeland and the home. The story contained references to Irish and Catholic Christianity, reflecting the reality of Irish society, which was still suffering under English rule, and its yearning for emancipation.