In the short story, “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been” by Joyce Carol Oates, Connie, a fifth teen year old who does not get along well with her mother, is out with her friends one night at the dine-in while they are supose to be at the mall. As she was walking to the car with n of her friends, another guy smiles and waves his finger towards her. She does not think anything of it until later on one Sunday evening when her parents leave to go to a barbeque that she refuses to go to. Arnold Friend, later found out to be the guy from the dine-in shows up at her home with his friend in the passenger seat. He asks Connie to go on a joy ride with him but she repeadeatly refuses to go. He threatens to harm her family when she tells him
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The devil himself is also seen to be very handsome, not what the typical person would think with horns and a pitchfork. In order for satan to lure you into whatever he wants from you, he has to be good looking, which Arnold is. Connie also notices something in his eyes when he takes his sunglasses off, “He took off the sunglasses and she saw how pale the skin around his eyes was, like holes that were not in shadow but instead in light. His eyes were like chips of broken glass that catch the light in an amiable way” (PAGE 310). The pale skin and broken glass appearance in Arnold Friends eye represent evil. In the story when Arnold is standing on the porch, Connie notices his leg turned in an awkward manner, almost as if it were fake which could also be a representation of satans cloven hoof, "His feet resemble the devil's cloven hooves: “One of his boots was at a strange angle, as if his foot wasn't in it.”"(4). In another part of the story he almost trips on his foot as well, if his foot was a cloven hoof then the way it was turned and him almost falling would make
The devil himself is also seen to be very handsome, not what the typical person would think with horns and a pitchfork. In order for satan to lure you into whatever he wants from you, he has to be good looking, which Arnold is. Connie also notices something in his eyes when he takes his sunglasses off, “He took off the sunglasses and she saw how pale the skin around his eyes was, like holes that were not in shadow but instead in light. His eyes were like chips of broken glass that catch the light in an amiable way” (PAGE 310). The pale skin and broken glass appearance in Arnold Friends eye represent evil. In the story when Arnold is standing on the porch, Connie notices his leg turned in an awkward manner, almost as if it were fake which could also be a representation of satans cloven hoof, "His feet resemble the devil's cloven hooves: “One of his boots was at a strange angle, as if his foot wasn't in it.”"(4). In another part of the story he almost trips on his foot as well, if his foot was a cloven hoof then the way it was turned and him almost falling would make