love age maturity

In the story by Joyce Carol Oates, “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been” and in the short story “The Storm” by Kate Chopin the relationships among love, age, and maturity will be compared. In the story “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been” based in the 1960’s, is about a fifteen year old girl named Connie who is seduced and finally abducted by a man named Arnold Friend. The Story has underlined tones of love, age, and evil. Connie, the main character of the story, is an attractive girl in her own mind which eventually gets her into trouble with Arnold Friend. In the story “The Storm”, Calixta and Alcee the main characters reestablish a past relationship together. “The Storm helps to define the sexual standards and restraints of the late nineteenth century” (Bartee). This story aids in explaining the sexual standards and sexual limitations of the nineteenth century as its main theme and makes the point about human nature towards sexual passion. In “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been” Connie’s decision to eventually leave with Arnold Friend is an unnatural decision for a young girl especially since he is a total stranger. Is it her love, age, or maturity that makes her decide to go along with Arnold Friend. It is likely that Connie leaves with Arnold because she is, “bowing to absolute forces beyond her youthful coquetry cannot direct- absolute forces over which she has no control” (Oates#). Arnold’s persistent and aggressive personality pushes Connie into his arms because she cannot resist his temptations which she perceives as love. In Connie’s mind she believes that “there is a fire inside [her] brain” to go against the “American Dream” of “hearth and home and innocent youth” (). In Connie’s mind was her home life pleasant? Did she have a good relationship with her family, such as her parents and or sister, June? What kind of life did she expect to live with Arnold? Also did she leave on her free will? Connie lives in the same