Joyce Carol Oates" "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" tells us about the life of Connie who has no guidance in life, because her family has not provided any moral support to help through her teenage life. She only knows about popular culture and not the consequences that comes with it. With...
... have come to fifteen-year-old Connie in the form of a "boy with shaggy black hair, in a convertible jalopy painted gold" (Oates 1225) in Joyce Carol Oates" short story "Where Are You Going? Where Have You Been?" The boy, who readers learn is named Arnold Friend, comes to the ... seen in stalkers. Friend also makes a brief mentioning of Connie's neighbor who recently died. "Hey, you know that old woman down the road?" (Oates 1235), he asks. This could be interpreted as an indirect implication that he is the one who has ended this woman's life. While some readers say ... life in "uncontrol...
Compared to the other characters in the short story "Where are you going, Where have you been?" by Joyce Carol Oates, the character Arnold Friend is one of the most developed and multifaceted. Besides have an intriguing personality, Arnold Friend is symbolic to the devil. Through out reading the text I came ... ...
"Where are you going, Where have you been?" by Joyce Carol Oates reveals a pattern that mainly consists of two things: Arnold Friend symbolizes Satan and Connie must be raped and murdered. The portrait of Arnold is created in the mind of Connie ... ...
