He is also too old to seat, and trance he is listening to a popular radio station all of the things served all Arnold critically follows the modern things which come down to a problematic situation. Arnold seems terrifying, and he knows exactly where Connie family is he does seem to have all knowledge of the things that he could not have which led to the idea of Arnold represents the devil.Īnother thing about Arnold is he in a way is a commentary on being modern trends. His friend Ellie describe having a pale chest and check pulled out which seems weird. He falls over a couple of times, presently he has hubs and also seems he is wearing a wig. They are lots of different possibilities that suggest the idea that represents to be the devil such as the fact it says he has trouble standing its seems like things are stuff into his boots. This guy Arnold friend drives up with his friend Ellie and procedure to threatened Connie to get out of her house and go with him where presume bad things are going to be happening to her. Connie, for example, giving a hard time to her mother, drawn a direct contrast to her sister June who is reliable and steady as it plotted, somebody who is not popular as Connie is and also somebody who doesn’t have any male figured friend in her life.Ĭonnie, her vanity, and her Novato get her in the trouble when this hunting character ends up coming to her house when her family is out at the barbeque. She goes out with her friends, and they end up taking advantage of the fact being dishonest about the things they don’t necessarily be responsible for their actions.

In her moments of terror, she proves herself to be childlike: she calls out for her mother.Ĭonnie is an attractive teenage girl, but her vanity sometimes gets her in trouble. When Arnold appears at her house, she tries to seem in control and unfazed, but she eventually breaks down and is overpowered by him. Connie knows little about reality or what adulthood entails, preferring to lose herself in the rosy ideas of romance that her beloved pop songs promote. She desperately wants to be attractive to older men, but once an older man-Arnold-actually pays her explicit sexual attention, she is terrified. What Joyce Carol Oates is trying to say in the story there are lots of elements of mystery to the end as well, but at its core surface, it’s about a girl being kidnapped by a devil.Ĭonnie works hard to prove her maturity, but despite her efforts with clothes and boys, she is not as mature as she would like to believe she is. There is a lot of different interpretation of the story as what the antagonist Arnold Friend represents, what Connie represents.

Oates in the year 1966, tell us the horrify story of a young girl led out of her house by a creepy fellow. In the story “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” by Joyce C.

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