based on‚ would try to look like Elvis Presley to lure girls to him. Music is a motif that shows up in the story multiple times. Joyce Carol Oates uses music to show Connie’s comfort‚ emotion‚ and the bait that lured Connie to Arnold. First of all‚ Oates uses it to show when Connie feels comfortable. For example‚ “... the music was always in the background‚ like music at a church service‚ it was something to depend on.” She is constantly surrounded by it‚ and that makes her feel satisfied. When
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character as important as Connie Sung‚ although the story is about Connie. Her personality is exactly like that most Chinese. However she is not a genuine Chinese‚ she is a Chinese American but she never been to China. As Connie said Lisa is a person inscrutable and mysterious. At the first meet of them‚ Lisa is dressed in “one-of-a- kind kimono dress … and her hair was drawn back tightly in a braid which stood out from close to the top of her head horizontally” (329). Connie realizes that Lisa has
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Be Careful What You Wish For Anything that is too much is harmful. The main character in "Where are you going‚ Where have you been?" Connie‚ faces the end conclusion of her shallow ways when she is approached by evil in human form. She had an excess of self-confidence. This self-confidence leads to a false sense of security and bad reputation. Connie also had a large amount of bad choices. She would do her best to impress boys with her looks; eventually she impressed the wrong guy. This short
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about a fifteen year old girl named Connie who is searching for her independence from her mother. The exposition is in the month of July at their home‚ where Connie is being scolded by her mother about her being obsessed with her looks. Her mother says‚ “Stop gawking at yourself. Who are you? You think you’re so pretty? (171) Her mother wants her to be more like her sister June who is twenty-four years old and helps around the house instead of daydreaming like Connie does. Their father is always at work
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mind will always leads to destruction and the devil loves an idle mind. A protagonist by the name of Connie in the story short story entitled “Where are you going‚ Where have you been” by Joyce Carol Oates‚ soon learns that her trashy daydreams and self-absorbed behavior only leads to disaster by way of a man named Arnold Friend. Arnold Friend character in this story represents the devil. Connie‚ a horny high school freshman shows a strong disdain for family values but more concern with social reputation
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independent‚ and felt the need to mature faster than they’re supposed to. These traits were very frequent in Connie from Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been. Connie continued to disobey her mother and go out in town to try and prove to herself that she is mature. She is a typical teenage girl trying to explore her sexuality through her looks‚ boys‚ and her friends. Since Connie was very rebellious and trying to become independent‚ she came to realize that she is not as grown up as she thought
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about a fifteen-year-old girl named Connie who encounters Arnold Friend‚ a predator whose first words to Connie are‚ “Gonna get you‚ baby” (Oates). One day‚ while Connie is home alone‚ she receives an unexpected visitor from the mysterious boy she saw the other night while hanging out with friends. The mysterious boy introduces himself as Arnold Friend and tries to persuade Connie to take a ride with him by bragging about his car’s new paint job and enticing Connie to view more paintings found conveniently
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Connie‚ the heroine of the book Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy‚ is put in a mental institution‚ once for abusing her child‚ and again for attacking a pimp‚ trying to save her niece. She appears completely sane though‚ until she starts seeing visions of people living in the future who claim to have contacted her because she is "receptive" to them. The question is‚ is Connie sane and her trip to the future is reality‚ or is she insane and just hallucinating? Although the book offers no
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The character in “where are you going‚ where have you been?” Connie is affected by the role she plays in modern society. Fifteen year old Connie has the confusing‚ often exterior behavior typical of those girls who are facing the difficult transition from girlhood to womanhood in the 1960s. She is caught between her roles as daughter‚ friend‚ sister‚ and object of sexual desire‚ uncertain of which represents her real self. The sixties were the age of youth‚ young people wanted change. The changes
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theme begins developing early in the story as we see that Connie cares much more about her reputation than her grandmother. It’s clear that Connie doesn’t respect her grandmother at first‚ calling her “ridiculous” (30) and being so embarrassed by her that she tries to “walk far behind them in public so that no one will think we’re together.” On the other hand‚ she cares a great deal about her friends‚ which is especially clear when Connie only agrees to bring her Abuela to church so that she can
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