The story
is told from 's point of view. It is a record of her thoughts, as well as what happens to her as
she experiences the events of the story. For instance, we learn,
The man out of the last house passed on his way home; she heard his footsteps clacking
along the concrete pavement and afterwards crunching on the cinder path before the new red
houses. One time there used to be a field there in which they used to play every evening with
other people's children.
This passage highlights Joyce's
technique. Eveline watches the man in the last house passing her house on his way home. We hear
what she hears: the sound of his footsteps. As she hears him walking on...
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