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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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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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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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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is using a third person point of view: “Her name was Connie. She was fifteen…” (Oates 51). Although the narrator tells or implies to readers how Connie feels‚ he or she does not describe how all the other characters think or feel and thus it means that the narrator has a limited perspective. Telling the story from a distant and limited perspective makes the story more interesting since it leaves readers little clue as to how people around Connie would act. This makes readers unable to know what happens
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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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Her confidence is only shaken when a man tries to oppress her in a sexual way. It is then when Connie realizes that she was not as strong as she thought she was. Due to the panic‚ Connie started to confuse reality from fantasy. Arnold Friend‚ takes advantage of Connie’s naïve personality‚ and tries to control her by threatening her. Joyce Oats describes oppression here as a form of sexual
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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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The story “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?” by Joyce Carol Oates shows the reader the self-created illusion that the main character Connie has created in order to better understand herself. Connie’s reality is altered as she has this dream that has manifested due to her desire for attention from others. Throughout the story there are many occurrences that support the idea that the entire story is a dream that was made up by Connie’s subconscious. Throughout the story‚ Arnold mentions many
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muscular”. Arnold Friend’s neck seems to be the neck of a muscular animal which is a devilish characteristic which makes Arnold Friend the devil. In conclusion Arnold Fiend represented the devil because he was nothing‚ but trouble. His first words to Connie were "I’m Gonna get you‚ baby." That can also represent Connie’s sexual desires because she continued to converse with him and seemed interested for
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