Question 3: "It was hard word--a hard life--but now that she was about to leave it she did not find it a wholly undesirable life." What about it makes it attractive to her?
The cliche that we don't know what we have until it's gone comes into play with this question. Eveline Hill, at the start of the story, is sitting at her window thinking of "better days" in her childhood that may not have actually been much better than her current situation besides the fact that she didn't have to hold down so many jobs to support her family. Her father is an abusive figure in her life that she now has to take care of because her mother is gone and she feels the obligation to stay with him. She is the homemaker, a shop worker, and a nanny in order to provide for her abusive father and herself. She hates her life, but at the same time she feels as if if she changes it then she will hate it even more.
Eveline's major conflict in the story is whether or not to leave her father to marry a sailor named Frank whom her father says she shouldn't marry because sailors are flighty. She is afraid of the unknown with Frank, and that ends up holding her back at the end of the story when she has the chance to leave her old life behind. Even though her father is crazy and abusive, she has a connection with him because she is still his daughter and will always love him. It seems so much more attractive to stay with the comfortable and the known parts of her life rather than enter into the unknown. She's a very relateable character because she has dilemmas that humans battle constantly.
The cliche that we don't know what we have until it's gone comes into play with this question. Eveline Hill, at the start of the story, is sitting at her window thinking of "better days" in her childhood that may not have actually been much better than her current situation besides the fact that she didn't have to hold down so many jobs to support her family. Her father is an abusive figure in her life that she now has to take care of because her mother is gone and she feels the obligation to stay with him. She is the homemaker, a shop worker, and a nanny in order to provide for her abusive father and herself. She hates her life, but at the same time she feels as if if she changes it then she will hate it even more.
Eveline's major conflict in the story is whether or not to leave her father to marry a sailor named Frank whom her father says she shouldn't marry because sailors are flighty. She is afraid of the unknown with Frank, and that ends up holding her back at the end of the story when she has the chance to leave her old life behind. Even though her father is crazy and abusive, she has a connection with him because she is still his daughter and will always love him. It seems so much more attractive to stay with the comfortable and the known parts of her life rather than enter into the unknown. She's a very relateable character because she has dilemmas that humans battle constantly.
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