departure from the truth. The movie’s and the story’s description of young Connie are similar. Connie is described by the author as an attractive fifteen year old who “had a quick‚ nervous giggling habit of craning her neck to glance into mirrors” (Oates 148) and who wore clothing “that looked one way when she was home and another way when she was away from home” (Oates 149). The movie‚ starring blonde Laura Dern as Connie‚ depicts a teen who glances frequently in store-shop windows to view her image
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I think Paul and Connie are alike in so many ways especially because they were both teenagers who had a special love for music. One of the way I think they were alike is that they both had great and very vivid imagination. In the story Where are you going‚ Where have you been‚ Connie spent some of her summer‚ “thinking and dreaming about the boys she meet‚ But all the boys fell back and dissolved into a single face that was not even a face‚ but an idea‚ a feeling.” This clearly indicates her how
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self”. According to the article‚ this can be observed in how Connie and Arnold are opposites in both appearance and behavior‚ and Arnold’s purpose is to induct Connie into adulthood. I disagree with the idea that Arnold is Connie. While the article gathered a lot of good evidence to support this claim‚ I think the claim actually begins to subvert many of the story’s original ideas. If we decide that Connie is indeed Arnold‚ then Connie is literally doing all of this to herself- she is the reason
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Connie is a young fifteen year old who cares about her sexual drive that men have toward her. “The 1960s unleashed the so called sexual revolution. It seemed more a source of comic relief and tragic nostalgic recirculation than political inspiration…” This revolution consisted of women demanding their own rights so they could become more and more independent. There were significant shifts in social attitudes‚ behaviors‚ and institutional regulations at the beginning of the 60’s and also lasted through
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by the author Will Jenkins‚ This story is focused on Connie who has arrived at her part of town‚ where her friends lived‚ after a two-week holiday. Upon reaching her house‚ which was the only one on the other side of the bay‚ her nearest neighbour’s houses were built across the bay. Once she was inside her home‚ she knew that her partner (Tom)‚ would be reaching home around midnight (But Connie felt unsettled and nervous without him). Connie went outside into the garden and failed to see someone
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adulthood‚ but often find the realities of adulthood shatter these childhood dreams. The journey between childhood and adulthood is frustrating and confusing‚ and in most adolescents‚ is filled with apprehension and anxiety. For the protagonist Connie‚ this distress is expressed in her dreamlike encounter with Arnold Friend. In the short story “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?‚” Joyce Carol Oates used the interaction between her two main character‚ to reveal the internal fear and conflict
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True Meaning “Everything about her had two sides to it‚ one for home and one for anywhere that was not home”(1369)‚ this character‚ Connie‚ in “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?” by Joyce Carol Oates‚ is depicted as a self-centered‚ condescending‚ insecure fifteen year old girl growing into a woman. Connie comes off as a troubled young girl who consistently uses her sexuality for attention but at the same time is afraid of intimacy. This is said be due to her fractured relationships with
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overcome weakness. Written in the nineteen- seventies a new era of sex‚ drugs and rock and roll‚ Connie is growing up in a new rebellious young culture. Oates writes about how obsessed Connie is with her appearance‚ "craning her neck to glance into mirrors‚ or checking others people’s faces to make sure her own was all right". This description makes her out to be vain. One explanation of why Connie is concerned with her appearance would include a new awareness of self consciousness and a need to
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Connie’s Paradigm In Joyce Carol Oates’ short story‚ “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?” we follow the main character Connie as she faces an inner transformation. The author introduces Connie as a vain and inexperienced adolescent who seems to daydream about things she doesn’t quite understand as she has more of a naive idea of what adulthood is all about. She takes pleasure in having control over everyone and everything around her. These ideas as well as her security are shaken when the
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characters‚ which ultimately creates a more impacting effect and lasting impression. Arnold Friend is the devil in human form. However‚ as his physical description progresses‚ he becomes more unreal and more caricature-like with every trait. Everything Connie‚ the protagonist and object of Arnold Friend’s desire‚ sees is like something else she knows‚ familiar and recognizable. These traits‚ however‚ do not create a homologous character; instead it is an awkward collection of incongruities. If a trait
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