Throughout the stories Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? And A Good Man Is Hard
to Find, The theme of fear is present throughout these stories. The ideology of fear are shown in
these two stories and they connect to how fear is used to control people. Fear is seen today and
was seen in the 1960’s and 1970’s. Both Joyce Carol Oates and Flannery O’Connor emphasized
this throughout their stories.
In Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? Arnold Friend exists as a character
who is surrounded by multiple people in his daily life. He chooses Connie out of the crowd and
chooses her to be his next victim. Friend shows up at her house and tells her “I like them the way
you are, Honey”. He is talking about what he likes which …show more content…
Arnold Friend is a very violent
man. Now he doesn’t seem like the violent but looking closely when he is talking about his car
you can tell that he kills many girls that look like Connie. His violence put fear into all of his
victims. All of it is a game to him and he gets a kick out of it. Now it doesn’t say how he killed
his victims but you can just tell that he is the violent type. When he is talking to Connie at …show more content…
The fear that Connie gets from Arnold leads her to feel isolated and can’t do
anything to stop it. All of these violent things are happening and it sent fear into many people
and it is the same just like back when Oates wrote this short story. It’s the same just like in A
Good Man Is Hard to Find. Misfit is an antagonist that enjoys violence just like Arnold Friend
but he does it in a more violent way and it shows this in O’Connor’s story. So Misfit is talking to
the grandmother and distracting her while his gang is going off and killing the family. When one
of Misfit’s gang members came back with her son’s shirt that sends her into her state of fear. She
knew what they were doing so that is when she started trying to talk her way out of it. So you can
say he is trying to make her safe until she starts noticing what he is doing so that’s why she starts
talking to him more. He eventually gets tired of talking to her and shoots her three times in the
chest. This was an extremely violent way for the grandmother to die but he used fear to get her
to Find, The theme of fear is present throughout these stories. The ideology of fear are shown in
these two stories and they connect to how fear is used to control people. Fear is seen today and
was seen in the 1960’s and 1970’s. Both Joyce Carol Oates and Flannery O’Connor emphasized
this throughout their stories.
In Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? Arnold Friend exists as a character
who is surrounded by multiple people in his daily life. He chooses Connie out of the crowd and
chooses her to be his next victim. Friend shows up at her house and tells her “I like them the way
you are, Honey”. He is talking about what he likes which …show more content…
Arnold Friend is a very violent
man. Now he doesn’t seem like the violent but looking closely when he is talking about his car
you can tell that he kills many girls that look like Connie. His violence put fear into all of his
victims. All of it is a game to him and he gets a kick out of it. Now it doesn’t say how he killed
his victims but you can just tell that he is the violent type. When he is talking to Connie at …show more content…
The fear that Connie gets from Arnold leads her to feel isolated and can’t do
anything to stop it. All of these violent things are happening and it sent fear into many people
and it is the same just like back when Oates wrote this short story. It’s the same just like in A
Good Man Is Hard to Find. Misfit is an antagonist that enjoys violence just like Arnold Friend
but he does it in a more violent way and it shows this in O’Connor’s story. So Misfit is talking to
the grandmother and distracting her while his gang is going off and killing the family. When one
of Misfit’s gang members came back with her son’s shirt that sends her into her state of fear. She
knew what they were doing so that is when she started trying to talk her way out of it. So you can
say he is trying to make her safe until she starts noticing what he is doing so that’s why she starts
talking to him more. He eventually gets tired of talking to her and shoots her three times in the
chest. This was an extremely violent way for the grandmother to die but he used fear to get her