This paper argues that James Joyce’s “Eveline” might be a writing material for  Joseph Conrad’s The Secret Agent. If Joyce used The Secret Agent for Ulysses,  Conrad  might  use  “Eveline”  for  The  Secret  Agent.  In  the  stories, Winnie’s  mother  leaves  Verloc’s  home,  forcing  Winnie  to  sacrifice  to  be Stevie’s mother. Likewise, on her deathbed, Eveline’s mother asks Eveline to care for her two younger brothers. In doing so, Eveline, much like Winnie, becomes  a  symbolic  mother  to  the  brothers.  However,  when  Winnie  and Eveline are about to achieve their freedom, they are abandoned by Ossipon and Frank, respectively. In despair, at the end of the story, Winnie drowns herself, and Eveline fears being drowned. Although Conrad and Joyce did not interact with each other  when  they were alive, they might  have used their works as writing materials to express their views of the peril of women at the turn of the century.