Some literary reviewers might see the story “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” by Joyce Oates as a narrative of a man who employs pleasing, tempting, attractive language first, and then, threatens with physical violence in order to force a young woman into following him. Is Arnold Friend meant to be a rapist and murderer? Since there are also some other suggestions about Arnold being the devil, actual Bob Dylan, or just a misunderstood social misfit, I am interested in finding any evidence of a portrait of a psychopathic killer.
