# Eveline Hill — Dubliners character guide

> Eveline Hill in Dubliners by James Joyce.

**Role:** major

**Also known as:** Eve

**First appearance:** 0003-eveline

## Snapshot

A young shop worker who weighs a sailor's promise of escape against the pull of family duty and a home that has worn her down.

## Who they are

Eveline keeps house for her father and brothers, spending her wages on provisions and enduring her father's moods. Frank offers her Buenos Aires, marriage, and a life she can barely imagine. Her struggle between the familiar and the unknown is the whole story's engine, and her hesitation carries the weight of every Dublin life left unlived.

## Relationships

### [Frank](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/dubliners_se/characters/frank)

_romantic_

Young lovers planning to elope; Eveline is torn between her desire for freedom with Frank and her duty to her family.

## In the story

### [Eveline](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/dubliners_se/chapters/eveline)

Protagonist who sits by the window, reflecting on her past and weighing the decision to leave home with Frank.

### [Eveline](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/dubliners_se/chapters/eveline)

She recalls her father's past kindness and violence, and her mother's tragic life, which fuels her desire to escape.

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