Eveline

The theme of Eveline focuses on escaping. Everything about Eveline's life makes her want to escape. She works as a sales clerk in "the stores" for the equivalent of less than ten dollars a week, her father makes her work and then keeps these wages, and she is trying to keep her deceased mother's promise to keep the family together. I think the sentence "Everything changes" really sums up the theme of the story. Some of my other thoughts, I do not believe she truly loves Frank, I think she uses him as her own personal escape, and the escape to her new life. Which explains the final lines of the story..."Her eyes gave him no sign of love or farewell or recognition". Which I took to understand that she did not go with him. If she truly did love him she would have went with him. Her eyes would have been quite the opposite, full of love, and if she really were letting him go, she would have said goodbye. Truly this was not Eveline's great escape.