This study aims to read James Joyce’s “Eveline” the other way around through the perspective of ancient Eastern philosophy reconsidering the state of its heroine with the same name, who has long been viewed from extremely negative and frustrating points of view by almost all of the critics. It attempts to find a different perspective on the fundamental causes of the collapse of one’s dream through the concept of ‘filial piety’ in the lessons of Confucius and Mencius. For the purpose, three elements of beauty quoted by Stephen in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man from Thomas Aquinas, namely “integritas,” “consonansia,” and “claritas,” will be appropriated as a framework to reconsider the story of “Eveline.”That is, the individual story will be detached from its series with its own structure analyzed independently, and then reexamined through the concept of “filial piety” in order to feel out a new way to reinterpret the story. As a result it is concluded that Eveline’s hesitation and consequent frustration of escape caused by uneasiness at uncertainty about a new experience can be reinterpreted as a sense of responsibility for the promise to her mother, which has been internalized long enough hoping to persuade her to make a decision to keep her family as long as possible without leaving her homeland. Thus Eveline’s paralysis, which has been deplored even by Joyce himself and all the critics so far seems to be eligible for the new name of ‘filial piety.’