James Joyce's short story, "Eveline", depicts a young woman living in Ireland in the early 20th century. The conflict in the story is that the protagonist Eveline wonders if it is right to run away with her lover, thus abandoning her family back home. Joyce uses her situation to demonstrate how gender roles in Ireland at the time, and more broadly around the world, are unbalanced because women are seen as inferior in comparison to men. Readers looking at “Eveline” from a feminist perspective allow them to evaluate the situation. relations between men and women in Irish society. An example of the gender roles seen in “Eveline” is the relationship between Eveline and her father. Eveline works day and night cooking, cleaning, taking care of the house and her siblings while working outside in order to earn some money at home. Eveline “always gave her entire salary…but the problem was getting money from her father.” Even though Eveline works hard to earn her money while maintaining a busy schedule, she is not allowed to keep this money for herself. She must...