When You Are Going Quotes And Analysis

A young lovers wish of having a boyfriend that treats her right becomes a part of a dream where the harsh truth is “dreams can come to reality”.

While being fascinated with dreaming, Connie spent a lot of the time letting her mind slip over onto thoughts about the boy she had seen the night before. The thoughts were vivid about how nice he treated her and how this could potentially be all the time.”Connie sat with her eyes closed in the sun, dreaming and dazed with the warmth about her as if this were a kind of love, the caresses of love, and her mind slipped over onto thoughts of the boy she had been with the night before and how nice he had been, how sweet it always was..” (Oates 2). Connie’s life seems to revolve around boys. She
Connie and her mom never get along. It seems if though her life is centered around boys. There are secrets and innuendos. Connie hides a lot of things from her mother about who she really wants to be. “But the two of them kept up a pretense of exasperation, a sense that they were tugging and struggling over something of little value to either of them.” (Oates 2). “He didn’t bother talking much to them, but around his bent Connie’s mother kept picking at her until she wished her mother was dead and she herself was dead and it was all over.” (Oates 1). Both of her parents is not present or involved in Connie’s life. Neither ask where she is going or where she been. Connie wishes death on her family because they doesn’t understands or treats her how she wants to be treated. Connie mother doesn’t understands her, and her mom treats June better than Connie because June has a job and cleans the house. June do whatever her mom tells her to do and Connie couldn’t do a thing, her mind was filled with trashy daydreams. Connie's dream world is of her own creation. She feels comfortable there because in her dreams, she does not have to worry about the restrictions and pressures of her normal teenage life and her