Where Are You Going, where Have you Been?
Joyce Carol Oates' short story, "Where Are You Going, Where Have you Been?", is about entering new uncertain future. Within only a short time Connie, the protagonist of the story, has to grow up, learn to take responsibility and face the cruel and hard reality of life. "My sweet little blue-eyed girl," he said, in a half sung sigh that had nothing to do with her brown eyes but was taken up just the same by the vast sunlit reaches of the land behind him and on all sides of him, so much land that Connie had never seen before and did not recognize except to know that she was going to it." This paper will show that Connie develops from a superficial and dreamy teenage- girl into a more rational woman. The first paragraphs will deal with Connie's life as the young careless teenager. Her behavior and attitudes towards her family and with her peers will be looked at. The actual encounter with Arnold Friend will be examined in the succeeding sections. According to Christiana Marsden Gillis the: " very title of the story calls attention to duality: A future (Where Are You Going) and the past (Where Have You Been). The tale catches its main character at a passage point where, it is implied, the future may depend preci
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Approximate Word count = 1987
Approximate Pages = 8 (250 words per page double spaced)
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