English Comp. 102

Response Essay #1

Eveline

Eviline is unlike any other love story. Yes it is about young love and the hardships the couple were faced with, but the out come is very different. Eveline, who has already been courted by Frank, is planning on marrying him and "to live with him in Buenos Ares"(5). Or has she really made up her mind? When she meets him at the station and they are getting ready to board the ship, all of the sudden Eveline changes her mind and decides that she cannot go with Frank. "He would drown her" in "all the seas of the world"(7) if she was to leave everything that she has known. But Eveline's rejection of not just a rejection of love, but also a rejection of a new life and a way to escape the hard life she has already come to...