Analysis of Where Are You Going Where Have You Been Where Are You Going Where Have You Been by Joyce Carol Oates is a coming of age story about a young girl Connie who encounters a man named Arnold Friend Friend is a dominating man who makes Connie choose between conserving her innocence or submissing to the adult world of immorality Oates reflects the naiveness of adolescents through Connies attitudes and actions in the story Connie lives in a fantasy world gallivanting with her friends around
Growing up is often a drawn out process Although in some cases blossoming into a knowledgeable and self sufficient person may only take on experience maybe even a sentence or a glace of something different and your whole life and perspective will adjust The short story Where Are You Going Where Have You Been by Joyce Carol Oates demonstrates the struggle of life and the decisions people are faced with everyday We learn early in the story that Connie does not appreciate nor does Connie like or h
Connies Escape From Life Joyce Carol Oates story Where are you going where have you been portrays Connie a typical teenager struggling through common adolescent problems One day she is confronted by a man named Arnold Friend Whether fantasy or reality Friend provides an escape for Connie from her family relationships her guilt to be loyal to her family and sexual repression The Author paints the picture of a strained family relationship Connies mother would constantly compare Connie to her sist
Joyce Carol Oates Where Are You Going Where Have You Been is about a young girls struggle to escape reality while defying authority and portraying herself as a beauty queen ultimately she is forced back to reality when confronted by a man who symbolizes her demise The young girl Connie is hell bent on not becoming like her mother or sister She feels she is above them because she is prettier She wants to live in a dream world where she listens to music all day and lives with Prince Charming She
Question 3 Discuss the ending of one of the short stories we have explored Why do you think the writer ends the story there Are your expectations fulfilled by the end of the story Title of chosen story Where are you going where have you been A short story by Joyce Carol Oates A short summary of the story illustrates the main character Connie a beautiful but self absorbed 15 year old girl who is at odds with her mother and older sister Without her parents knowledge she spends most of her evening
Ill huff and puff until I blow your house down This quote is from the well known fairytale of the Three Little Pigs The big bad wolf goes around blowing down the pigs house of sticks and straw Only the house of bricks withstood the wolfs fury In the end the reader can interpret that when time patience and hard work will provide a better off result the laziness and getting things done the easy way Although there is a moral behind this story it is still a story for your entertainment a type of es
Where Are You Going Where Have You Been by Joyce Carol Oates involves a fifteen year old girl Connie living in a patriarchal society She has to learn how to deal with her mom forcing traditional gender roles on her and being compared to her sister June Through traumatic events in Connies childhood she develops a low self esteem to cause a negative behavior and rebel her parents The reader can see Connie giving up and walking toward the stranger as negative effect of patriarchal ideology giving
In the stories Where Are You Going Where Have You Been by Joyce Carol Oates and A Good Man Is Hard To Find by Flannery OConnor both of the main characters are trapped by men who are going to eventually kill them Both stories stress the fact that you cant always talk your way out of danger or evil situations When dangerous men trap you your sweet talk or pretty face isnt going to get you out of trouble or deaths clammy hands In the end they may even be the cause of your demise In Where Are You G