... not of a chance meeting-turn-date rape, but instead, a dream sequence induced by popular culture, transformed into a self-actualizing nightmare. In his article "Joyce Carol Oates's Where are you going, Where have you been as pure realism-, Coulthard argues that Oates's story is strictly, a written representation of a victim of the real-life murderer, Charles Schmid. He claims that the characters are not "personifications of ... perfectly matches the description of Alleen Rowe, Schmid's first victim. However this view seems flawed given the inconsistencies that exist in the story's realis...

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• Grade Level: High School

... People assume that when put in a situation where rape would be a possibility they would be able to fight their attacker away or somehow escape. As in Joyce Carol Oates" short story Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? The truth is that in many instances of rape, the victim can not resist. In ... Oates" story a young, naive girl (Connie) is confronted by a man (Arnold Friend) who intends and succeeds to take her away from her home and rape her. The ... complaints and look right through her mother, into a shadowy vision of herself as she was right at that moment: she knew she was pr...

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• Grade Level: High School