Where Are You Going Where Have You Been Analysis

“Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” is a story about a about a fifteen year old girl named Connie. Connie holds two sides of herself, one side of her life at home and the other when she is with her friends. When she is at home she walks and acts childish and when she is with her friends she acts grownup. Her mother treats her and her twenty-four year old sister much differently. She praises her older sister about how perfect she is but puts down Connie about how she can’t do things around the house. In the story, Connie is at odds with her mother, who was once known to be beautiful. Her mother, now not much of a beauty like before, is jealous of Connie and how beautiful she is. It is hard on her mother to look at her knowing that she was once that beautiful as well. When Connie is not at home or with her friends, she is known to pick up boys at ta restaurant called Big Boy. One evening, when leaving the restaurant with another boy, she catches the attention of a stranger in a gold convertible covered with mysterious writing. One day while her parents were out at a barbeque at her aunt’s house, two men pulled up the drive way in front of Connie’s house and called her come out. She recognizes the driver, who was Arnold Friend from the drive in restaurant. He tells her …show more content…
When blacks were treated poorly and this story talks about how girls who were treated at the camp by some white girls and was called names by them. Packer has the audience on their toes when the girls have a secret meeting about ambushing the girls of Troop 909. When the Brownies talk about going to the bathroom by themselves, the audience gets excited and wonders if the ambush was really going to happen. When it is explained that the girls from Troop 909 have special needs, the audience gets a feeling of guilt, and that maybe it wasn't right to plan an ambush. This being said, the Brownies do not have a feeling of