Influence I. Introduction A. State the Name of the Short Story‚ and the Writer who wrote it “Where are You Going Where Have You Been” by Joyce Carol Oates. B. Provide a brief Synopsis of the Short Story The story is about a girl named Connie that believes physical beauty is all that that matters in life despite the evidence around her to the contrary. B. State Thesis This evaluation will determine the reliability of the narrator‚ how Connie’s sense of entitlement affects her as a
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In “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?” the author uses clothes as a symbol to reveal our protagonist and antagonist individualities. Connie who is our protagonist is a fifteen-year-old girl who has the habit of craning her neck to glance into mirrors. Connie wears a pullover jersey blouse that looked one way when she is home and another way when she is away‚ in where she wears shorts. In the text‚ it states that “They must have been familiar sights walking around the shopping plaza in their
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tanned down onto his throat but then running out as if he had plastered makeup on his face but had forgotten about his throat” (472). Satan can take the shape of his victim’s weakness. Connie’s weakness is boys‚ he is dressed as a teenage boy and Connie says that he isn’t bad looking but his demeanor is strange. She also doesn’t believe that he is just a “few” years older than she. He appears to be over compensating‚ using a dated expression such as “MAN THE FLYING SAUCERS” (469). This shows that
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mechanisms used by the human subconscious in order to deal with issues too intense for the conscious mind. These strategies of the psyche are translated into symbols scattered throughout this work. These symbols are expressed through the characters of Connie‚ and Arnold Friend. The first convention is denial. Denial is when the subconscious cannot handle an issue or event and forces the individual to falsify reality and flatly refuse to accept it. Denial rears its head in several places in this story
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the excerpt “Were Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been” the character Connie is a young fifteen year old girl who struggles with self-esteem problems. She feels pretty when she goes out with her friends and gets hit on by a boy. While she may find it entertaining to get hit on and checked out by different boys‚ she does not realize that she is drawing dangerous attention to herself. Arnold Friend is a man who finds interest in Connie. On a morning when her family wasn’t home he appeared at her house
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decisions along with the criminals’ bad intentions led to death creating the plot of both stories. Although‚ the stories have the same plot‚ the characters differ tremendously. Connie‚ the
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bring about the changing attitudes women were forming about what they wanted out of life. Women were looking for more than marriage and domestic duties. In his novel Dubliners there is a short story titled Eveline that portrays a young woman who wants out of the life her mother left to her. Eveline felt trapped in a role that belonged to her mother and the women of that time period’s legacy. A role that was left to her upon her mother’s death‚ a repetitive role that consisted of taking care of her
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self is your representation of the attributes that you would like‚ ideally‚ to possess” (Higgins 320). The protagonists - Sammy‚ Gregor‚ and Connie - of the three stories did have two sides to their personalities‚ the actual‚ and the ideal. However‚ their lives took different turns depending on the way they chose to express their ‘ideal’ self. While Connie expressed her ideal side every time she was away from home‚ Sammy exploded at the moment of truth and Gregor lost himself amidst the confusion
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between innocence and adulthood. In the story‚ the protagonist is a complicated and confrontational young woman named Connie. The narrator explains that “Everything about her had to sides to it” (Oates 1). Connie has two personas‚ the person she is at home and the rebellious and carefree young woman she is away from her home. Throughout the plot‚ the doorway symbolizes a threshold that Connie has to consider crossing into maturity. The inside of the house contains what she is familiar with‚ such as her
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and influential topics. I only touch on Kings idea of women’s roles in this response‚ but there are many other issues he brings up throughout the novel. The issue of roles in the novel can be seen when King shows the single women like Alberta‚ Connie and Babo having to fight to maintain their title such as Miss‚ Mrs‚ and Ms. Babo has to correct Sergeant Cereno three times before he understood‚ she then talks about how her name is traditional and usually is a boys name. King plays with the idea
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