How does the 5th paragraph reflect the writer's main concern in his short story?"Eveline" by James Joyce

In the fifth paragraph, Eveline of James Joyce's short
story ponders the rather ambiguous opportunity afforded her.  She can run away with the
sailor who has suggested adventure to her, or she can remain at home.  As Eveline
considers how the people at the store where she works will react and how she will no
longer be subjected to her father's abuse, she reflects upon his threats to her and his
cruelty when he is "fairly bad of a Saturday night."  She imagines how she has had
to purchase groceries in the night, clean the house, and care for her younger
siblings:

It
was hard work--a hard life--but now that she was about to leave it she did not find it a
wholly undesirable life.

Now
that she considers leaving her family, Eveline experiences what Joyce termed
"paralysis."  Eveline has the opportunity to leave her oppressed life behind, yet she is
reluctant. For, an overwhelming sense of fatalism is present in Eveline as a "pitiful
vision" of her mother's life "laid its spell on the very quick of her being."  Eveline
has promised her dead mother that she would care for her siblings. So, although she
tries to convince herself that "Frank would save her," Eveline is incapable of making
the assertion of psychological freedom; she becomes paralyzed emotionally:  "Her eyes
gave him [Frank] no sign of love or farewell or recognition."