Childhood innocence is the most salient memory one should cherish. The short story focuses on a teenage girl named Connie. Originally, this story is based on a tragic case of murders in history. The writer uses these events in the main character's life as a trigger to speed up her adolescence. This makes Connie is a dynamic character on the reason that her persona changed from the beginning of the story towards the end. The story begins with Connie’s mother pointing out all of her daughters flaws and comparing them to her older sister. She says “stop gawking at yourself. Who are you? You think you’re so pretty?” and “What the hell stinks? Hair spray? You don’t see your sister using that junk.” She is a strict parent so that Connie will turn out like her sister, instead she accidentally hurts her mentally. Connie’s behavior is fueled by her mother’s expectations to grow up in her sister’s footsteps. A number of people would see that Connie is only putting up this act so she could be seen differently by her family and friends. She even has thoughts that she wished her mother was dead and she was dead too, so that her life would have no more problems. That …show more content…
Eddie starts talking to Connie and they decide to depart to his car. Most girls would be too scared to enter a car with a guy but she wasn’t. The way she is described in the story, Connie is young and beautiful, but she is still a child. She and her friends walk down the street and a guy looks at them while they ignore him. Nothing happens between her and Eddie. If something would have happened, Connie wouldn’t have been ready and she would have gotten scared. They spent three hours together and they just hung out. Connie has no intentions to do lustful, adult activities regardless of how she acts with guys. She only desires people to love her instead of people insulting her decisions such as her