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Connie Character Analysis
Connie who finally gets attention from an older person she gets frighten, she neglects her childlike fantasies for realities of being a mature woman. Too look mature she dresses older, wear her hair different, her behavior and the way she acts when she’s away from home. She even gets the attention she wants from an older person, hang out at restaurant’s and listens to romance and love songs. Connie has two sides to her, one at home which she acts immature and when she goes out with her friends which she acts mature. She never seems to have a stable side to herself. Through the story, Connie doesn’t know what or who she wants to be.
Connie tries to be mature. When she is away from home she tries to be sexy, seductive, and mature. But the way Connie giggles, smirks and her behavior at home makes her immature. But when Connie is away from home she acts different. Her relationship is defined by her relationship to men’s or boys, and romance fills her thoughts. “Connie is a pretty teenager on the cusp of adulthood who is experimenting with both her identity and her sexuality” ( Salvalaggio Karin).
Doesn’t get along with her sister or mom. Connie and her family seems like enemies to each other, they can get along at all. Since Connie doesn’t have a
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Connie has two sides to her one that’s stable to her and home and one when she goes out with her friends. Connie and her mother doesn’t have a god relationship, neither does her and her sister. She listens to too romance pop music, wear her hair different and look sexy and seductive. When Connie “Mature” Sides frightens, her she doesn’t really want to be mature anymore. But Connie gets really scared and tries to cry for help when Arnolds pops up in her yard while her family is away. She tries to make a call, and scream for her mother, but Arnold Friend tells her to come outside which she obeys and gets into his

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