How is the scene when Eveline has an epiphany about leaving with Frank substantial? "Eveline" by James Joyce

Asis
preparing to leave with Frank, she has an
epiphany of a bell clanging upon her heart." As
he takes her hand, she
experiences all the seas of the world tumbling about her heart."
She has a
vision of him drowning her in the seas and she clutches at the iron railing,
fiercely.
Even though he calls after her, asking her to follow him, she does
not respond to his call.
Instead, she looks at him helplessly, without any
emotion.

This scene is
important because it explains the
conflicting emotions going on within Eveline. When presented
with escape from
her difficult life, she is paralyzed into inaction. She cannot make herself
to
follow Frank into the waiting boat. She is too attached to her life in
Ireland to be able to
leave all the familiar things behind. Instead, she now
sees her beloved as a possibly dangerous
man. Indeed, Evelines situation is a
difficult one, for she has to make a choice between staying
and leaving with
a man whom she barely knows. If she...