By definition, the word "change" is the term meaning, "to make different...to continue one's journey by leaving one station". In James Joyce's essay "Eveline", what the main character Eveline's journey held for her future is yet unknown to even her. She has the opportunity to make the choice of a lifetime, one of which would dramatically revolutionize her life in enormous ways; the other allowing her to continue on with her day to day routine without many adjustments made in her typical life. Would the major change in her life be what she needs to escape the family nightmare she is living? The potential change in Eveline's life, were she to choose that route, would have dramatic consequences on how she would spend her future.
             Eveline lives an outlandish life with her violent father and constantly is playing the role of mother to her younger siblings. Working at the dreaded Stores, she gives all her weekly earnings to her father to satisfy his yearnings. But her job is steady, and her income is fair. If she were to leave their hometown to begin a new life with her boyfriend, Frank, she would be forgotten, a distant memory. "And yet during all those years she had never found out the name of the priest", who had left their town and now only lives on in the minds of family and close friends (4). Would she be satisfied, forgotten by her own family, never to be remembered for all the things she had done for them?
             In writing "Eveline", Joyce compares and contrasts both sides of the situation Eveline is facing. Having "seemed [like Eveline had met him] a few weeks ago", she is faced with the tough decision to either remain in her frightening ordeal or to begin a new life with him (5). On the contrary, "...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" (5...