In this short story, the main character, and namesake, is a nineteen year old woman named Eveline. The story opens up to her looking out the window of her old house, thinking back on her childhood and the good days.
Recently, her life hasn’t been so good. In fact, Eveline refers to her life as “a hard work- a hard life.” After her mother died, Eveline has had a hard time keeping her promise to her to her mother to keep the home together as long as she could. What with her father looking down on her and having her give him all her wages and her having to make sure the children go to school and eat regularly, she’s been left pretty tired. But apparently she doesn’t find her life “wholly undesirable.”
She has in her lap two letters- one for her brother and one for her father- which she plans on leaving when she leaves later that night to run away and marry her kind, manly, and open-hearted Frank. In the end though, she stays there, her letters unread.
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