“Eveline” By James Joyce and “Samphire” by Patrick O’Brian Essay

Both of these stories tell of women wanting to break away from dominating mannish influences in their lives. Eveline is fed up of working at piazza and of looking after her breed where as Molly wants a emotional state away from Lacy. moreover at the end of each story, neither woman is nearer to her goal of a new life.The start of Eveline is very descriptive and gives the reader the impression of her life so far. Although Eveline works around the house, in her nostrils was the odour of dusty cretonne. She was tired and these three words set the tone of the story for the reader.In contrast, Samphire opens with the uplift white slumps and the vicious sea. The wind brought the salt tang of the spray on their lips. This opening is as well very descriptive but in a distinguishable way to Eveline the sheer power of nature and the restfully and simple home. But both of these openings are effective in setting the scene for the story.Eveline lives at home with her father as her bro thers and sisters were on the whole grown up, her mother was dead. This last fact obviously had a huge effect on Eveline and her father, possibly making her father become violent, she some snips felt herself in danger of her fathers violence. And now Eveline wants to go away like the others, to leave her home.Mollys problems or intentions about what she wants to do are not known about until near to the end. It is possible though to guess at what she is irritated about her married man Lacey. He had a high, rather unmasculine voice, and he emphasized his words. He is very persistent, three times he pointed it out patronising, how he had even to be a little firm childish, wagging his finger trying to be humorous, made a joke about the shop being a house of ill-fume but the tobacconist did not understand not attractive, the thin, fluffy hair that covered his baldness, and extremely image conscious, and how the people would stare when they brought it back.But it wasnt all easy for Eve line either. She had to put up with her father who said that she used to squander the money and that she had no head. She had hard work to keep the house in concert and overall it was a hard life. But Frank was a totally different person, very kind, manly, open watched compared to her violent father. Her relationship with Frank was expiry fine until her father found out the affair and had forbidden her to have anything to say to him. This is because he relies on her and that he doesnt want to lose. There is also the possibility that he is quite a stubborn man and that Frank is intruding on his relationship with his daughter.Throughout the whole story, there is the doubt or guilt factor that is preventing Eveline from leaving and going off to Buenos Aires with Frank. Now she was about to leave it (her life) she did not find it a wholly undesirable life her time was running out, and that her father was becoming old lately, she noticed he would miss her. Then near to the bottom of t he second page come the critical facts about why she does not want to leave home the promise to her dying mother, her promise to keep the home together as long as she could.The plot of Samphire is that Lacey sees a clump of samphire on the edge of a cliff and is determined for Molly to see it. Once she has seen it, there is a great satisfaction from Lacey as he knows that Molly is scared of heights, heights terrified her, always had, but he soothe forces her to look at the plant. The following day Molly said she would like to see the samphire again much to the joy of Lacy. She obviously does this to keep him happy and possibly to keep him quiet for a little while. As they reach the top of the cliff and turn the path, Lacey cries out, it is still there. Oh jolly good. It is still there.As he stretched over the cliff to try and reach the plant, Molly stepped forward and tried to push him off the cliff, but as she pushed him she felt her arms weak like jelly. It is near as if in he r heart she doesnt want to push him off. For a second the wind bore his body and the stick scrabbled furiously for a purchase on the cliff. He gets up, screaming at her, you pushed me Molly, you pushed me, you pushed me. Lacey is in complete shock as he realises what Molly was trying to do. Still she stood, stone still not listening to him. She marches off down the path, with Lacey following after her. Before he was leading the way, but now she is the dominant figure in their relationship. And still he is trying to believe that it was an accident but he was lucky that she didnt push him all the way off.The end of Eveline results in her doing what her heart feels is best as well, just like Molly as she leaves Frank to stay with her father. All the seas of the world tumbled about her heart. It was a difficult closing but one that she had to make.