Connie was fifteen and pretty. Her mother was always comparing her to her older sister June who was very plain to look at. June always helped around the house and had a job at the school to help her parents pay the bills. Connie spent most of her time admiring herself and daydreaming about boys. Connie and her friend would go into town with her friend's father. They would tell him they were going to the movies but very seldom did. They spent most of their time at the town's drive- thru restaurant searching for boys.

One night, while with a male friend, she saw a strange boy staring at her. She pretended that she wasn't interested in him but she couldn't stop looking at him. One Sunday her family went to a ba

Arnold asked Connie if she would like to go for a ride with them and at first she refused but, he kept persisting and she became afraid and ran in the house. He still didn't let up so she threatened to call the police. Arnold told her he wouldn't come in the house as long as she didn't touch the phone and if she did call the police that something bad would happen to her family. Finally she decided she had had enough and grabbed the phone and tried to call for help. There was a loud buzzing in the phone and suddenly she went into a trance. Arnold finally was able to talk her out of the house to go for a ride that would most likely kill her. (Oates)

Arnold even fools Connie initially with his dress, because he has studiously created (with wig and elevated shoes for boots) the look which young women like Connie approve of: "Connie liked the way he was dressed, which was the way all of them dressed." (Window) It seemed as if he knew what she liked and used it against her. However, she has difficulty separating Arnold from the other young men she dates; she sees in him the same charming smile and provocative tone, yet "all these things did not come together". (Joyce) Arnold uses other ways to fool Connie. For example, though Friend claims to be eighteen, Connie sees him as "thirty, maybe more." (Oates) Further, Friend twice states that he will not enter the house without permission (Oates)-though in one of these instances he infers when Connie picks up the telephone as giving him permission to enter the house (Oates). This, too, is a demon reference, referring to the ancient belief that a demon cannot enter a house without an invitation. (Window)

Arnold Friend seems to have physic powers that giv

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