When James Joyce put Dubliners, he arranged the book into four sections: childhood, adolescence, maturity and public life. While "The Sisters" and "Araby" belong in the childhood section of the book, "Eveline" is an example of the adolescence portion. Perhaps this is where you'd want to begin developing your thesis.
How is "Eveline" different from "The Sisters" and "Araby"? One of the most immediate ways "Eveline" is different from the childhood stories is in...
When James Joyce put Dubliners, he arranged the book into four sections: childhood, adolescence, maturity and public life. While "The Sisters" and "Araby" belong in the childhood section of the book, "Eveline" is an example of the adolescence portion. Perhaps this is where you'd want to begin developing your thesis.
How is "Eveline" different from "The Sisters" and "Araby"? One of the most immediate ways "Eveline" is different from the childhood stories is in the narration. All of the childhood stories are told in first-person with unnamed boy narrators, while "Eveline" is in third-person, although full of free-indirect discourse (the narrator delving into the thoughts of the characters).
Perhaps your thesis would involve similarities as well—each of these stories deals with the book's overarching theme of paralysis. The boy in "The Sisters" unable to move away from Father Flynn, the narrator in "Araby" unable to buy anything for Mangan's sister, and Eveline's inability to flee Dublin in "Eveline."
You could also explore smaller themes like coming-of-age and sexual perversions (there is some thought that Eveline would be sold off to become a sex slave in Buenos Aires).
Each of these ideas would make for an excellent thesis and an excellent essay.
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