都柏林人英文读后感By reading Dubliners

By reading Dubliners, I'm deeply impressed by the vivid description of the musical air, sophisticated inner thoughts as well as the compact plot which makes it readable. Eveline, from James Jorce's short novel Eveline, is a tragic character. Within a short coverage of only 5 pages, James dug deeply into this girl's life, thoughts and fate.

Life is like a libra, you have to weigh it. On the one side, there is the boring daily rountine of hard work, dull job,father's maltreat, lightless future, the same life trace and poor ending like her mother's. But at least Eveline could have a shelter and enough to eat. On the other side, there is the most attractive unknown future, love from Frank, adventurous life in a new continent, a new world. However, the uncertainty also could drive one frenzy. To start life in a unsecure state, and accept the unsecure love of possibility is not an easy option. Anyone who faces this kind of choice would be drown into hesitation, needless to say that it happens in that age, that place, to that thoughtful girl, Eveline.

Her name is as beautiful as evening. And the story happens to start during a silent night with an air of Italian melofy. Her tender thoughts adds to the softness of night. The memory of the teenage is one of the handful treasure she can bring out and count joyfully now and then. Besides, her brother is her tender of heart. Even the few shining points of his despicable father have been carefully kept. Kind, mild, and diligent, she has inherited all the virtues as well as weakness from her passed-away mother. However, under the veil of night, there can also be tide water and undercurrent. Youth is the power which fight againsts all those old tradition, those ugly convetion and all that is of the past. Eveline feels the requirement to love, breath and live a life as she likes. She dreamed to sail on sea, live in a new continent which might be of light and hope. Deep from her heart, she cries hard, making a declaration that her own era is coming.

As Eveline draws back at the port, all her careful plan and tired struggle become vain. She, as the only supporter of the family, cannot release her burden and responsibility as she supposed. Having responded to her mother's will, she is bonded to a life of tiresome, maltreat and boredom, the typical life of labour-class woman of that age.while a new life is waving at her, she does try several times before all her line of defence collapses. We can see how her decision fluctuates from the description of the ship. She used to dream day and night to set on board such a ship representing a bright future and happy life. But, at that moment, it becomes a black mass. The weather is misty while the whistle of the ship is mournful. In such a sad atmosphere,her failure is also our failure, human being's failure.

Actually, in our lives, we may act as Eveline sometimes. On one hand, we dream about something new, fresh, something which can erase all the old regulation that makes us sick.on the other hand, we are not brave enough to embrace a unknown life, though it may be fabulous. Life under control is our lovely, familiar last stray. What's more, we are too easy to adapt to everything. That's not bad in some aspects, But it kills our aspiration to go on voyages, to sail on the sea. Eveline does not find it totally an undesirable life, though hard. In our life of only several decades, we could save ourselves only by jumping from the bank to the board, a task left by Eveline, remaining to be finished. And I think that's Jame's will.