What's the setting of the story in "Eveline" by James Joyce?

Most simply
put, the setting of any story is the time and place in which a
story unfolds. However, in a larger sense, setting also refers to a story's
overall greater environment and establishes the
mood of a story. Setting can include "social conditions, historical time,
geographical locations weather, immediate surroundings, and timing" (Literary
Devices, "Setting").

In 's short story "," the
story opens with the title character and , Eveline, sitting at a
window in her father's home, at
dusk, watching dusk turn to evening. Therefore, the window, the
home, and the approaching evening all count as aspects of the setting.  

As
we continue to read, due to the narrator's reference to Belfast and
the list of Irish names, we learn that the story is more specifically set in a
small, unnamed village in Ireland. The narrator's description of change in the
village is also part of the setting; more specifically, the narrator reflects on how Eveline
used to play in an open field with the other village children, but the field has since been
covered with new houses by a "man from Belfast."

Further aspects of
the setting include several factors that help identify the culture and
society in which she lives: (1) She works as a shop girl for very low wages; (2)
her father is a drunkard; (3) her mother is deceased, and she must work very hard to take care
of both the household and her youngest siblings; (4) she is afraid to run off with a man to
escape her living conditions because she is afraid of ruining her reputation; and (5) most
everyone she grew up with has emigrated out of the country.

Due to these
cultural references, we know the story is also most likely set around the time that Joyce wrote
the story, which was 1914, the same year that World War I started.
The hardships the character endures reflects Joyce's own experiences living in
Ireland.

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