- All's Well That Ends Well
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- As You Like It
- The Comedy of Errors
- Coriolanus
- Cymbeline
- Hamlet
- Henry IV, Part 1
- Henry IV, Part 2
- Henry V
- Henry VI, Part 1
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- Henry VI, Part 3
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- Love's Labor's Lost
- A Lover's Complaint
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- Measure for Measure
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- The Winter's Tale
As Eveline is contemplating whether or not she should leave Dublin, she is struck with a wave of nostalgia as she looks at the objects around her house. Of course, she is not actually emotionally attached to any of these objects, but she finds herself attached to the familiarity and comfort that they represent. This nostalgia, along with her fear of the unknown, end up triggering her paralysis at the end of the story.
Eveline spends a lot of time focusing on the dust coating the objects. In the text dust primarily symbolizes death, as well as monotony, since Eveline…