Saturday, 20 April 2013

What kinds of indirect characterization are employed in Eveline?

While there
are four different ways in which authors develop their characters using indirection --


  1. through a physical description
  2. through the thoughts of
    the character
  3. through the character's own actions

  4. through the comments and reactions of other characters

--for the most part,employs only two of these techniques; namely #2 and #3. For, he
makes use of 's thoughts by means of the Modernist technique of . In addition, Joyce utilizesto
connote Eveline's being "spiritually lost."  As she sits, leaning against the dusty
drapes watching the field where she used to play and the brown houses, Eveline reflects upon how
her father "was not so bad then" and her mother was yet living. Eveline also
contemplates her intentions to leave home.

Glancing around the house,
Eveline notices more dust, suggestive of immobility and death-in-life as she deliberates her
decision to leave, qestioning its wisdom. But, she recalls her subservient...

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