After Reading [Eveline]
Eveline, By James Joyce, 1904 Rate : 9/10 Eveline showed a clear ending, unlike other storys by James Joyce that I've read. Eveline could not escape from paralysis easily, and in the end she chose to remain in Ireland. Looking at her story, I came up with the word "gaslighting". It means dominating others' mind by gradually manipulating her/his thought worse off. It seems that the act of gaslighting still existed before hundred years too. If she knew what gaslighting was, and if she had recognized that she was being gaslighted, she would have escaped without being trapped by words that constrain her, such as "Derevaun Seraun!", which means "The end of pleasure is pain." A person cannot live without change. We can develop and live normally when we constantly challenge new things in search of happiness and move forward. However, Eveline is bound by the historical and historical environment, unable to change and stagnate in a pa...