Eveline

When Eveline weighs the option of staying versus leaving with her love. Leaving is more desirable because of the way her father treats her. He never has hit her like her brothers and mother but has alluded more and more to possibly beating her. But what really makes her desperate to leave is the last images of her crazed, sickened mother in the final phases of her life. Her mother's last phrases were gaelic sayings. She said, "Derevaun Seraun! Derevaun Seraun!" Which means either "The end of pleasure is pain." or "The end of song is raving madness."This mirrors Eveline's crazed feeling of desperation to leave. That final image and the memories of her father's threats and shopkeepers annoying voice send her over the edge. She now depends on her new love to take her away from the worries and fear of her old life.