Eveline
...f the poverty his family was taken into due to his spendthrift father. Despite of that, he had a jesuit education, experiencing the contrast between his family life and the comfort enjoyed by his schoolfriends, which made him able to describe the Irish society, represented in this work by Dublin, in a detailful way. By the end of the Nineteenth Century, the society of Dublin had endured more than a century of decline, and the human misery was one of the most important problems, and a great number of dubliners where emigrating. “Eveline” is a Modern literary work, and this extract is written on a free indirect speech, describing when the main character – Eveline Hill, an Irish shopkeeper - reminds of the promise made to her mother to keep home together as long as she could. The promise comes back to ther mind when she hears the sound of a street organ, which makes her feel as if she was living again the last day of her mother. The extract now commented is a turning point of the short story, sin...