resisting the clichés: a feminist reading of james joyce’s ‘eveline’

from chaucer’s the canterbury tales onward, female characters appeared in all genres of literature but the role they are traditionally assigned,rarely presented them without any prejudices. as sandra m.gilbert and susangubar(1979) assert, there exist two principal stereotypical images of women,“the angel inthehouse”and“the mad woman in the attic”.in one of the stories of dubliners, a collection of short stories written by james joyce in 1914,readers read about, a girlnamed eveline,who is indecisive about whether according to the clichés of her patriarchal society or resisting them all.this study by using feminism literary theory as itsapproach, attempts to show that when eveline was standing hesitantly_on the quay,she succeeds (although for some short moments) at finding her rightful place while not succumbing to the rules of a patriarchal society.