Most women do not seem to like dangerous men more than kind men. The fiction work, “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” by Joyce Oates, shows this quite clearly, and many other works of literature have as well. During the beginning events of the short story, when she first saw Arnold “Connie slit her eyes at him and turned away” showing her clear dislike of the bad boy type (590). She then spent over 3 hours with Eddie, who was shown to be a nice guy in the line “her mind slipped over to thoughts of the boy she had been with the night before and how nice he had been” (592). Connie’s dislike of dangerous guys in further shown when she adamantly refuses to go for a ride with Arnold. She even called him crazy and shouted at him “Get the
