Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been Essay

unloved. Also they might feel ugly and unwanted by any guy. Especially if your own parents do not pay much attention to you just Like Connie’s parents do to her in the article “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” by Joyce Carol Oates. Which led her to seek for the attention her parents were not giving to her making it easier to fall in the hands of a psychopath. Psychopaths have…

Everybody goes through a stage in their life where they want to be independent. In Joyce Carol Oates “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” the main character Connie shows many signs of wanting to just grow up and move on to the next stage in her life. I relate to the story through the character Connie, as she represents and gives off different themes that contribute to the bigger picture of the story that I find myself relating to, such as a desire to grow up and having two different…

thing that comes to mind is usually that it is the year Donald J. Trump became the president.One of the years that women are able to freely express their identity and sexuality without being shunned for it. However, in Oates story ‘Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?’ set in the mid-1960s, Oates highlight that a revolution was happening. American women were starting to assert their rights and independence from men's patriarchal tendencies and claiming their very own sexuality like they…

A famous country singer once twanged the refrain, "Just call me Cleopatra cause I 'm the Queen of Denial”. In fact this performer is one of many vocal artists to employ this pun in some way. Even politicians like Al Gore have used the phrase, "denial ain 't no river in Africa". The ubiquitous image of an ostrich with its head buried in the sand is another icon of denial. Perhaps no human failing is more ubiquitous and insidious than the propensity to ignore the truth and deny reality.…

“Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” is a story about a about a fifteen year old girl named Connie. Connie holds two sides of herself, one side of her life at home and the other when she is with her friends. When she is at home she walks and acts childish and when she is with her friends she acts grownup. Her mother treats her and her twenty-four year old sister much differently. She praises her older sister about how perfect she is but puts down Connie about how she can’t do things…

In the story "Where have you been, Where are you going?" by Joyce Carol Oates we are taken back to a time in our lives in which most people can relate to in one sense or another and a theme that is still alive and well today. A constant struggle between equality of male and female and the subjection of the ideas of sexual intimacy is a reality in this story. The story is portrayed through the eyes and mind of a young teenager, Connie, trying to find her place in life. Unfortunately what she…

Take a look in the mirror; hot damn! As one grows older, she understands what society expects from her. One realizes the effect her looks have on others, whether she is hideous and terrifies the world, or she is so beautiful that no one can take their eyes off of her. In Joyce Carol Oates’ short story, “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” the protagonist Connie displays the effects of her beauty. Connie, the beautiful fifteen-year-old self-absorbed adolescent, attempts to test her beauty…

the main character of “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? ”, is a personification of both the stereotypical and actual depiction of rebellion. Many individuals feel that rebellion is an involuntary phase of the teenage years. She has a tendency to disobey the spoken and unspoken, yet implied, wishes of her parents. She reduces the likelihood of being caught in her mutinous acts by assuming a double life. Her clothes, attitudes, and actions all differ depending on where she is and who she…

Short Story Analysis Jeffery Sumber, a clinical psychotherapist, believes a dream reveals a person’s “deepest desires and deepest wounds.” (Tartakovsky) In the short story “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been,” Connie is a young vulnerable fifteen year old girl; who longs for love, affection, and attention from the male populace. Her adolescent mind is consumed with thoughts of boys and being in love, as well as obsessing over her appearance and being accepted by others. One afternoon as…

story ‘Where Are You Going Where Have You Been’ and the movie ‘Smooth Talk’ both tell the same story of a young girl named Connie. Although there are subtle similarities and differences between the two stories, some of the major differences between the two stories revolve around the relationship that Connie has with her family members and how Connie’s character is portrayed throughout the stories and her interactions with Arnold Friend. In the Story ‘Where Are You Going Where Have You Been’…