Oates represents family relationships are conflict relationships between Connie and her mother, Connie and June, Connie and father. Exactly Connie and her father’s relationship are close to insouciance. Oates describes about her father, who is separate from his family due to the work most of the time, also he doesn’t have any spend time with the family, too, he wants just read the newspaper at supper and after supper went to bed (Oates). He doesn’t care what Connie wants, what she did at the mall just same as like her friend’s father. I can understand this relationship because it is not rare in most families and mine is too. Usually, when I was young, mine and most my friend’s father did like Connie’s father. Their role was simple such as work during a day, eating supper and go to the bed.
According to achievement.org, Oates’s life was a very expectable life, absolutely regular hours, nothing unusual, no need, to organize her time (achievement.org). So this reason is why her works are spread variety of genre. I don’t think there are parallels. Her works seems like to journey to satisfy her desires, due to her life was monotonous. …show more content…
There was not any mentioned about this, however there are many clues and can guess what happened to her. Actually, I have a shallow insight related to Tim O’Brien’s work.
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Joyce Carol Oates. Lewis Center Princeton Arts, 2014. Web. http://arts.princeton.edu/people/profiles/jcsmith/ Oates, Joyce Carol. "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" American Literature Since the Civil War. Create edition. New York City: McGraw-Hill, 2015. 244-255.