In "Where are you going, Where have you been?" the devil is masquerading as Arnold

Friend, or that he is at least one of the devil's messengers. All the evidence during the corse of

the story helps to support this fact. One could see with all of the supernatural things that Friend

did, such as predict where and where Connie's entire family was and what they were doing,

proved that he was at least one of the Devil's evil little pranksters: "He ain't coming. He's at a

barbecue Aunt Tillie's. Right now they're-uh-they're drinking Yeah. Sitting around. There is

your sister in the blue dress, huh? And high heels, the poor sad bitch-nothing like you,

sweetheart! And your mother's helping sone fat woman with the corn, they're cleaning the

husking corn" (Oates 452). By Friend predicting what and where Connie's family was doing

should further support the fact that he is the Devil. Another reason that Friend might be the devil

would be the fact that he has a minion, which happens to be Ellie. But the most obvious thing

that one could have noticed was Friend's rough appearance.

Arnold Friend's appearance was that of a person in a Hallo

suggested that he may not be of this earth. He could even be one of the Devil's imps from hell.

that he was a very popular person and that he knew all of the same people that she knew: "Listen:

Even though it is not expressed in the story that Friend is the Devil the fact's stated above

that Joyce Carol Oates' story was based on the exploits of Charles Schmid it is likely that he

was, that doors and things were easy to avoid "I mean, anyone can break through a screen door

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