Eveline Eveline explores a girls hopes and dreams and her attempts to escape from her current life in search of something better. “She sat at the window watching the evening invade the avenue. Her head was leaned against the window curtains, and in her nostrils was the odour of dusty cretonne. She was tired”. The fact that she is staring out of the window is a classically symbolic of the will to ‘escape’ as it …showed first 75 words of 951 total…

…showed last 75 words of 951 total…she cannot leave and, as a result, stay with the only person she cares for. Eveline portrays most of the classic elements of the book ranging from unfulfilled relationships, the desire for escape and most importantly the sense of hopes defeated. We empathise greatly with the protagonist,. We understand their simple desire for a better life and the bathos surrounding this window of opportunity eventually leading to the tragic element of her final, helpless state.