along with these angst-filled years. “Her name was Connie. She was fifteen and she had a quick nervous giggling habit of craning her neck to glance into mirrors, or checking other people’s faces to make sure her own was all right” (145 para. 1). Joyce Carol Oates does an amazing job creating such scenes that do happen to girls in their early teens years. In the story, “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?,” the main character Connie deals with many coming of age situations including her parents and
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Where Have You Been” by Joyce Carol Oates, is a fictional short story that completes the truth that falling to sin seems pure at first but ultimately ends in the worst way. Arnold Friend is symbolized as satan through the development of the plot, characterization, and point of view. Oates foreshadows the fall of Connie to Arnold Friend by setting most of the story on a Sunday. “One Sunday Connie got up at eleven- none of them bothered with Church” (Oates 2). When Oates uses the words “none of
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see nature as being what environmentally influences them, and nurture as the way they are taught to feel and think about things. In the battle between nature and nurture “It is nature that wins”. The short story “The lady with the Pet dog” by Joyce Carol Oates illiterates it. The short story starts with a woman named Anna, who is at an event with her husband when she sees a man in the crowd and suddenly is anxious and in distress about it. She goes home her mind passes over him while she is
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Throughout the whole story “Where Are You going, Where Have You Been” of Joyce Carol Oates, one of the main characters, Arnold Friend, behaves himself in a strange manner. He seems to be a typical psychopath since he demonstrates a range of emotional and interpersonal features which are inherent to such people. The first matter to consider is that psychopaths often talk witty and articulate their thoughts clearly. They can be fun interlocutors, presenting themselves in a positive way. Arnold Friend
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The Aha! Moment “You get the sense that the scene is an answer to something. It can be such an epiphany and that's what's so powerful about it. But the danger is that the very epiphany that you have initially can ultimately lead you into a trap, escaping life,” spoken by Greg Harrison. This quote underscores the nature of epiphanies as both the solution to a literary or actual problem and as a dangerous trap. In The Seagull Reader Stories,“Cathedral”, “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?”
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“Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” Summary In the short story “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” author Joyce Carol Oates presents the main character a fifteen year old girl named Connie who’s life is all about being pretty. Connie all ways casted two sides to herself. Her appearance and mannerisms would be displayed one way at home with her family, and entirely different when she was not. Often Connie and her friends would go to a shopping plaza, although they would wander across
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Kyle Nerbonne English 1102 Dr. Wilson Spring 2011 Title Joyce Carol Oates, an American fiction writer, was born in 1938, in Lockport, New York and many hold Oates as "America's preeminent master of the short story.” Her literary career began with her first novel, With Shuddering Fall, in 1964. Soon after she wrote her most noted work, “Where are you going, where have you been.” She grew up in the Erie County countryside near Lockport, which provided the setting for some of her stories and novels
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plays a big part for each person, and many people are not sure about their identity. Who are they? Why do people like me? Where should I fit in? These questions are big questions that many are reflecting over. In the short story “In Hiding” by Joyce Carol Oates, we are introduced to a single mother with identity problems and low self-esteem, this make her life hard and therefore she is trying to hide from it. A divorced lonely mother, who is working as a poet, translator, and a college teacher,
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piece of literature they have ever read. In this semester of Literature 221, I was given the opportunity to read works from many different genres, time periods, and styles of writing. Some of which, like Emily Dickinson’s Life I and Life XLIII, Joyce Carol Oates’ Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?, and Sherman Alexie’s What You Pawn I Will Redeem I thoroughly enjoyed and learned from. While others such as Ernest Hemingway’s Big Two-Hearted River, Mark Twain’s excerpt When The Buffalo Climbed a
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she’s out or at school. She’s very concerned about how she looks to others and is constantly checking herself in the mirror (Oates 244). At the end of the story, it seems Connie is changed after she tries, and fails, to call the police. It seems that Connie has lost her will when it’s said that “She was hollow with what had been fear but what was now just an emptiness” (Oates 254). Connie no longer felt in control of her own body, thinking about her heart “for the first time in her life that it was
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