The beginning of the 20th century opened with a sense of emancipation for some and apprehension for others. Freedom from the previous moral values ​​and restrictions of the Victorian era, together with the impact of industrialization, transformed urban life and improved the working and living conditions of many people. The development of railways and the construction of new homes encouraged people to migrate to developing cities to enjoy a better standard of living. Considering, in the texts we are studying, the central importance of emancipation. Disagreeing with this statement, I have chosen to discuss "Eveline", "Dubliners" (Joyce, 1914). Accordingly, the selected texts are "The Trumpet player" and "Pushcart man" by Langston Hughes and "To Brooklyn Bridge". ' (1933) Heart Crane. The first decade of the twentieth century saw the intimate city of Dublin in a period of stagnation. The legislation had merged Ireland with Great Britain, resulting in the loss of the Dublin parliament. As a result, the city was a mixture of extremism and conservatism. Dublin has shown a limited degree of modernity, but at a slower pace than other European cities, mainly because Dublin maintains links with its rural surroundings. As a small city, Dublin has retained its intimacy and neighborly feel, with people who know their stuff and share common interests, both socially and politically. Restrictive routines and repetitive, mundane daily life describe Joyce Dubliners' characters, despite their desire for emancipation and to escape to a better life, they are instead dying in their own difficulties, trapped in the frustration of routine, paralyzed from acting decisively or awareness, since they have not been enlightened by any epiphanic re......middle of paper......will replicate the same wasted life of her mother and, despite this concrete possibility of emancipation, she feels helpless, paralyzed and incapable to take this step forward. Eveline is weak and vulnerable and unable to challenge her father due to his dominant patriarchal authority. Eveline is destined to become an old maid, forced to care for her abusive, elderly father, like so many other women in Dublin at the time. Through Eveline, Joyce describes that Dubliners, especially women in the early 20th century, would not get very far, would not be transformed or emancipated, despite their dreams, paralysis succeeding, and people being trapped. Eveline is unable to realize her dream of escape and becomes a "passive, helpless animal", condemned to a domestic life, as she watches her lover board the ship among hundreds of other people. (Joyce 2000, p.26)