Arnold Friend's Relationship In 'Where Are You Going'

Everything happens for a reason, in Where are you going, Where have you been case the lack of parental love in comparison to her sister is what drove Connie into her destructive behavior. Where you going, where you’ve been displays an extreme of the parent’s favoritism of one sibling over another forcing Connie our main character to seek out to be more mature which results in Arnold Friend. With a Dad constantly at work and a Mother preferring the other sibling Connie had little option but to seek attention elsewhere. This matched with her beauty led to her acceptance into the wrong crowd, the older boys the ones who advanced connie 's sexualization too far too fast bringing her into the vision of men like Arnold. The only way Arnold came into contact with Connie was the adventures in maturity she had with the boy named eddie as she sees him while kissing a boy “at that moment she happened to glance at a face just a few feet from hers. It was a boy with shaggy black hair, in a convertible jalopy painted gold” (Oates 2). This is obviously Arnold in his signature gold jalopy with the shaggy black hair and everything, he was there looking for someone like her young, stupid and most importantly for him beautiful. Now to go back to what drove her out there in the …show more content…
Where you going, where you’ve been displays an extreme, of lack of parenting forcing connie to go to new measures to seek attention and being the beautiful girl that she is attracted the wrong kind of attention found in Arnold