"Eveline" by James Joyce, is a fictional story of a young Irish girl and her attempt to leave behind her cold and dead life to live in beautiful, sunny Buenos Aires with her young lover. Now, if only she has the courage the make that jump and swallow her fear. The main character, Mabel, in "The Horse Dealer's Daughter" by D. H. Lawrence, tries to leave her poverty striken life by commiting suicide, where she would be united with her beloved mother who passed away years before. The reader reads these two stories with an understanding and compassion, while these two girls struggle for happiness and their place in the world.
             Eveline is a young Ireland native of 19, whose life is described by James Joyce as dutiful and lifeless. The story opens with her sitting by the windowsill, peering out into the concrete streets, while a dusty odor fills her nostrils. She watches through her window as the people she's known throughout her life leave, including her brother. Some leave to England, some travel south to mysterious islands, either way, these escapees never return. Presently in her life, Eveline's mother is dead, her brothers are gone, and Eveline's life at home consists of working, housecare, taking care of her sometimes violent, alcoholic father, food shopping with her own money, and taking care of two young children that were left to her responsibility. Many people would be ecstatic to leave this life behind, however the reader learns early in the story how conflicted Eveline is. "It was hard work - a hard life - but now that she was about to leave it she did not find it a wholly undesirable life." In addition, Eveline also has her dead mother's last wishes on her already burdened shoulders. Her mother wanted Eveline to keep the family together.
             Frank, a young man on his white horse, has come to bring this young girl out of bondage. He wants to bring her to beautiful, sunny, Buenos Aires, where she would live as his wife.
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