Trip is a thirty- five-year-old man, who has been living with his parents since the day he was brought home from the hospital. Sue (Trip’s mother) does his bed, washes Trip’s clothes, and even cleans his room. Trip’s excuse for not leaving home is that his parents will miss him too much.…
This sets up the tragedy that befalls Connie. One could ask, “Why Connie, she's only fifteen and so innocent?”, but is she really? One could argue that she welcomed this tragedy through her behavior and vanity. This is open to interpretation but I believe that her family is to blame.…
In Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?, Connie’s character can be easily categorized as shallow and egotistical. At only fifteen years old, the young teen only worries about her physical appearance and what others think of her. Connie lives in a make-believe world where movies and music affect her views on love. The reader can make the conclusion that Connie is self-centered by reading the line, “She was fifteen and she had a quick nervous giggling habit of craning her neck to glance into mirrors, or checking other people’s faces to make sure her own was alright”…
Connie is a young girl bent on defying her mother’s expectation of how her daughter should act. She does this by running around with boys and making herself visually look and act older than her sixteen years. She attracts the eye of predator Arnold Friend. In a way, Arnold calls her bluff by inviting her out for a drive, which she usually is keen to do with other boys, but is weary of him because of his age and demeanor. Connie thought of herself as a true rebel among her tame friends but is forced to reevaluate this assumption when she warrants unwanted attention that isn’t able to easily shake off.…
This character makes one think of him as being the devil as he took advantage of a young, innocent female who was vulnerable to anyone who would make her feel loved. Connie was victimized as many females are today. Females today are put down by other females in order to make one feel better about themselves. There is always a guy to sweep in and be the “hero” to “care” for a girl just to break her heart in the end using her for his personal…
Connie appears to be a self-confident girl to the outside world, but after she meets Arnold Friend, she realizes how vulnerable and innocent she is. Indeed, her beauty couldn’t protect her from harm and gives her what she…
When Connie is not at home or with her friends, she is known to pick up boys at ta restaurant called Big Boy. One evening, when leaving the restaurant with another boy, she catches the attention of a stranger in a gold convertible covered with mysterious writing. One day while her parents were out at a barbeque at her aunt’s house, two men pulled up the drive way in front of Connie’s house and called her come out. She recognizes the driver, who was Arnold Friend from the drive in restaurant. He tells her…
First Connie's shift in personality is viewed in different perspectives between Connie at home and with her friends. According to the narrator “ Everything about her had two sides to it, one for home and one for anywhere that was not home”(Oates 2). This points out the concept of duality emphasising that Connie walked and talked differently “childlike and bobbing, pale and smirking” as opposed to her house she would display sharp and timid behavior. The reason for Connie's shift in personality is the lack of male affection she never received from her absent father “their father was at work most of the time” leading her to seek love elsewhere. Although Connie's happiness was found by her friend visiting the drive in restaurant Connies state of mind was based on fantasy.…
Connie is young and pretty, and she is well aware of this. She is always “craning her neck to glance into mirrors” to check on her looks (1). Her relationship with her mother is a…
She decides to chat with the two men instead of evading the situation. The two men are evil, they found out all about her, her family, where her family is, which is how they found her house and why they chose to arrive at time when she is alone. When Connie finds out that the men arrived with sexual intentions, she begins to show her other side. She is no longer the same carefree person she was earlier, she is now a cautious, frightened, thoughtful woman that has been formed from the situation. Rather than accepting the men’s request as she did with the man at the restaurant, she tries…
Connie is the typical teenage party girl, hanging out with new boys every night at the drive-in. One night, Connie has an uncomfortable encounter with Friend, who then suddenly appears at Connie’s home soon after and tries to coax her into coming with him to somewhere unknown. Although he uses unnerving language and threats against her family, Connie struggles against him and herself on whether she should leave with him or not. Friend uses his appearance, thoughts, and actions to create the perfect portrayal of a truly sinister being.…
For centuries, folklore has defined different cultures around the world. Many of these tales have been adapted into mainstream media for children by companies such as Disney. Unsurprisingly, Disney leaves out a lot of the original stories. The fairy tales from the Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen are meant to express topics involving the loss of innocence that young ones are not expected to know. Amidst modern literature, Joyce Carol Oates’s inserts similar connotations in her 1966 short story “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been.”…
One day Connie’s family goes on a trip and she decides to stay home. A strange guy named Arnold Friend shows up at Connie’s house in his gold convertible. At first she think he is cute so she flirts with him. The. She realizes he is at her house to kidnap her.…
The hit T.V. series “Better Call Saul’’ first aired February 8th, 2015 on AMC. This realistic television series is a crime drama with each episode lasting between 40 minutes to an hour. This series is filmed in the active city of Albuquerque. Saul Goodman is an attorney that attempts to get his name out to the city to gain business through hustling various individuals. In a particular attempt, Saul has two individuals (who tried to hustle him) help pull off a plan that involves a government official embezzling millions of dollars.…
The Netflix series House Of Cards and the main character Frank Underwood take advantage of the concerns of the public and use their power to achieve both self glory and along the way achieving great power. The question I present to you is, “Is Frank Underwood actually just a tyrant that leads to democratic complications and the evils that come along with it?” Drawing on Plato’s Republic, I will argue that Frank Underwood is a true tyrant due do his close relations with Thrasymachus and his definition of justice, and his relentless drive for power that takes advantage of the unnecessary appetites of the democracy and finally, I will conclude Frank Underwood is truly a tyrant because all his unlawful desires will only leave him in a state of…