Eveline

Eveline’s epiphany is that her expectations were far too great. She had this vision that if she went with Frank, her whole life would change for the better. Eveline believed that this was the change she was looking for and that this change would be a turning point in her life. She felt that if she left and got married, she would earn more respect in society and that in turn would allow her to live a better life. Eveline wanted her life to improve dramatically and believed that this was moving away with Frank would help her accomplish that goal. She sought respect from the society she lived in. Her vision was that if she left with Frank her life would drastically improve once she gained the respect she sought after. She believed this whole heartedly and so that’s why she wanted to leave with Frank so badly. As she prepared to leave however she wasn’t at the point mentally where she was ready to leave her family and her whole life behind even though she was disrespected in her current surroundings. The world has always been fairly patriarchal with a few exceptions. Equality is great thing and society itself tries to be equal even in this day and age not everything is considered equal. Men are still more power than women to a certain and extent and that just isn’t fair sometimes. Eveline lives in a society where that’s all that is preached. Women are expected to be housewives and just take care of the family in her society. Her dad treats her brothers better than he treats her due of the fact that she is a woman. When the time came for her to finally set off and leave, her eyes were finally opened. She realized that even if she went with Frank, nothing would really change and that her life wouldn’t be much better off. Society wouldn’t just change itself because she moved away and got married. She had an epiphany that the drastic change she desperately wanted would not be that simple. That’s the reason why she couldn’t leave and that is the reason why she stayed behind in her banal life.