In the short story, Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been, by Joyce Carol Oates, the setting is set in the 1960’s in America. The story has different situations such as: Connie’s house, the shopping plaza, the movie theater, and the drive-in restaurant. One day in a drive-in restaurant a guy seeks interest on Connie and marks her as his belonging. Days later the guy, Arnold Friend, shows up to Connie’s house when she’s alone and tells her to come outside with him so they can be together; Connie rejects to be with him because she’s scared but at the end of the story she eventually gives herself up to Arnold Friend.
The short story is important to read because it uses literary devices in an unbelievable way and gives different details aside …show more content…
In the story the mother is less insulting, yet she comments about Connie using an excessive amount of beauty supply it’s really the only thing insulting. On the other hand, in the movie the mother tell Connie “I look right into your eyes and see nothing but trashy dreams (Smooth Talk).” The mother is mentioning that she pictures Connie behaving as a slut and will spend her life being with guys to do trashy stuff. Connie’s mother also mentions in a scene that she thinks she knows what Connie is doing, which can be assumed that she thinks Connie doing stuff with guys. Another way the mother is more harsh in the movie than in the story is because in a phone call she compares Connie to June. She said, “June would never do that, she’s perfect (Smooth Talk).” In the movie there’s also a scene where Connie’s mom slaps here because Connie was disrespecting her. Yet the mom says that she doesn’t hate Connie it can be inferred that she dislikes her and view June as the perfect …show more content…
“ I’ll have my arms around you so you won’t need to try to get away and I’ll show you what love is like, what it does (Oats).” In the short story it fails to include what will happen to Connie after going with Arnold, but readers can most likely conclude that Connie is going get sexually assaulted and then murdered because Arnold says that love will make a person do all kinds of actions. Yet in the movie it gives a contrasting ending by Connie and Arnold going to a field and sitting down then Arnold drives Connie back to her house without assaulting her. The reason being why the director decided have Connie live and come back to her family was because that experience probably changed her since the reason why she decided to get with Arnold in the first place was in order to protect her family’s lives. Once Connie sees her mother, after being dropped off from Arnold, Connie gives her a hug which at first she didn’t like to do so because Connie only liked being hugged from guys and rejected her mother when she tried to hug her. By including this part it made the film version worse because Arnold friend mostly choose Connie for pleasure reasons so in reality he possibly would’ve killed her and taken advantage of her rather than just letting her
The short story is important to read because it uses literary devices in an unbelievable way and gives different details aside …show more content…
In the story the mother is less insulting, yet she comments about Connie using an excessive amount of beauty supply it’s really the only thing insulting. On the other hand, in the movie the mother tell Connie “I look right into your eyes and see nothing but trashy dreams (Smooth Talk).” The mother is mentioning that she pictures Connie behaving as a slut and will spend her life being with guys to do trashy stuff. Connie’s mother also mentions in a scene that she thinks she knows what Connie is doing, which can be assumed that she thinks Connie doing stuff with guys. Another way the mother is more harsh in the movie than in the story is because in a phone call she compares Connie to June. She said, “June would never do that, she’s perfect (Smooth Talk).” In the movie there’s also a scene where Connie’s mom slaps here because Connie was disrespecting her. Yet the mom says that she doesn’t hate Connie it can be inferred that she dislikes her and view June as the perfect …show more content…
“ I’ll have my arms around you so you won’t need to try to get away and I’ll show you what love is like, what it does (Oats).” In the short story it fails to include what will happen to Connie after going with Arnold, but readers can most likely conclude that Connie is going get sexually assaulted and then murdered because Arnold says that love will make a person do all kinds of actions. Yet in the movie it gives a contrasting ending by Connie and Arnold going to a field and sitting down then Arnold drives Connie back to her house without assaulting her. The reason being why the director decided have Connie live and come back to her family was because that experience probably changed her since the reason why she decided to get with Arnold in the first place was in order to protect her family’s lives. Once Connie sees her mother, after being dropped off from Arnold, Connie gives her a hug which at first she didn’t like to do so because Connie only liked being hugged from guys and rejected her mother when she tried to hug her. By including this part it made the film version worse because Arnold friend mostly choose Connie for pleasure reasons so in reality he possibly would’ve killed her and taken advantage of her rather than just letting her