Eveline's Epiphany

In Joyce's short story Eveline, the character of Eveline is a young woman who is stuck in her hometown, which she feels is a unexciting place. She meets a man named Frank who she believes can rescue her from her hometown. When she reaches the dock she experiences a Joycean epiphany, where she realizes that she is just going with Frank because she wants to escape from her hometown. After her realization she starts to run from the dock.
I think Eveline's epiphany relates a lot to Joyce himself. Joyce came from a Catholic Irish background, and he always tried to escape the "nets" that bound him, yet he often wrote about Ireland and Catholicism in his works. I think Eveline represents Joyce's beliefs. It seems as though both characters realize that they are who they are because of their background and their past, and even if you can physically escape your past, you can never mentally escape it.