He's Her Dream Boy Have you ever woken up from a nightmare and questioned yourself if it really happened or not? Well in Joyce Carol Oates's short story "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" a little fifteen-year-old girl, who is self indulged, leads a promiscuous kind ... and a white pullover shirt that was a little soiled and showed the hard small muscles of his arms and shoulders". His face was familiar to her somehow, too (Oates 707). When he smiles it looks like he is inside a mask: "his whole face is a mask" (710). Connie thinks she is a heroine in her dream ... outside so she wen...

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• Grade Level: High School

... 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...

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• Grade Level: High School