Life And The Pursuit Of An Independent Woman Analysis
Life and the Pursuit of an Independent Woman: Research Analysis
In life, there are some teens who seem to think they have life all figured out. They know exactly what they want to do in life and how things should go. Some individuals plan long before their time has come, and sometimes, this can be devastating when the plans do not go as planned or an obstacle is placed in front of them. Some people seem to think that life is a one-way street, without bumps, curves, and sharp turns. Joyce Carol Oates proves that this is not the case with Connie. Some teens are just like Connie—thought she had life all figured out. All Connie thinks about is how she looks and boys. Little did she know, she had a huge obstacle in her way—Arnold Friend. In ‘Where Are You …show more content…
First, Oates uses the serial killer, Charles Schmid, to write “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been.” Charles Schmid “was a little pipsqueak of a guy, standing just about 5'3" tall” (Bovsun). To balance out his height, Schmid wore oversized cowboy boots, stuffed with socks to add inches. Also, Schmid wore a mask design of his own with “dark tan pancake makeup, white lipstick, and hair dyed jet-black. He topped it off with a beauty mark on his cheek made of putty and axle grease” (Bovsun). Schmid drove through the Tucson area in a golden car sliding “along the glitter and gimcrack of Speedway” (McDonald). Schmid used his car to pick up girls, have sex with them, and kill them. Likewise, in Oates’s story, Arnold Friend was just like
In life, there are some teens who seem to think they have life all figured out. They know exactly what they want to do in life and how things should go. Some individuals plan long before their time has come, and sometimes, this can be devastating when the plans do not go as planned or an obstacle is placed in front of them. Some people seem to think that life is a one-way street, without bumps, curves, and sharp turns. Joyce Carol Oates proves that this is not the case with Connie. Some teens are just like Connie—thought she had life all figured out. All Connie thinks about is how she looks and boys. Little did she know, she had a huge obstacle in her way—Arnold Friend. In ‘Where Are You …show more content…
First, Oates uses the serial killer, Charles Schmid, to write “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been.” Charles Schmid “was a little pipsqueak of a guy, standing just about 5'3" tall” (Bovsun). To balance out his height, Schmid wore oversized cowboy boots, stuffed with socks to add inches. Also, Schmid wore a mask design of his own with “dark tan pancake makeup, white lipstick, and hair dyed jet-black. He topped it off with a beauty mark on his cheek made of putty and axle grease” (Bovsun). Schmid drove through the Tucson area in a golden car sliding “along the glitter and gimcrack of Speedway” (McDonald). Schmid used his car to pick up girls, have sex with them, and kill them. Likewise, in Oates’s story, Arnold Friend was just like