Summary Of Where Are You Going Where Have You Been

In her short story, “Where are you going where have you been?” Joyce Carol Oates describes the emotional ride of a fifteen year old girl, on the verge of becoming an adult and losing her innocence of mind and body along the way. She has a difficult time growing up and developing her own personality as they would have her react to her circumstances.“Everything about her bad two side to it, one for Home and one for anywhere that was not Home.”
Connie feels that the best attribute that a girl can have is being pretty she knows that she is pretty and she feels that she needs to continue to look at herself and look at other to see how they react to her beauty to see if she is pretty enough. She feels that she must be like the other young girls