Write a short note about James Joyce.

I'm not quite sure what kind of note about Joyce you're specifically looking for but, since your question is filed under his short story "Eveline," I'll introduce Joyce as a writer within the context of that story.
An Irishman born in Dublin in 1882, Joyce was the oldest son of an initially financially stable family that gradually descended into poverty. His experience living in the squalor of nineteenth and early twentieth-century Dublin was to inform all of Joyce's work, and though he spent most of his life abroad in Paris, Trieste, and Zurich, Joyce based all of his writing in Dublin and is famous for depicting the struggles of "paralyzed" Dubliners (Joyce famously stated that one of the leading themes of Dubliners was paralysis, as it mirrored the frustrated stagnation of the people living in Ireland's major city). The themes of paralysis and poverty are of central importance in "Eveline," as Eveline is trapped in a stagnant job and a unsupportive family life (her father routinely takes her wages and spends them on alcohol). Forced to care for her family in the wake of her mother's death, Eveline is thus trapped or paralyzed, even though she is still young and ostensibly has her whole life ahead of her. It's especially interesting that, given the opportunity to leave Ireland and her dysfunctional family behind her, Eveline decides to stay. Her reasons for doing so are ambiguous but involve a promise of looking after home that she made to her late mother. In the end, Eveline is condemned to her life of stasis, and her potential for growth and renewal seems to be snuffed out even though she is young. A note of melancholy therefore pervades this short story, a melancholy born from an inability to act or pursue one's desires.