where have been and where are you going

Name: Instructor: Course: Date: Connie: Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? Introduction The story takes center stage in the 60s within the suburbia, and revolves around the life of a teenage girl. Reading through the story today one gets the notion that the setting is in suburbs as most the environments that the characters are interacting with are far from what would be called urban today. Connie is the main character in this story that was published by Joyce carol Oates. Connie is in her teenage years and she goes through some tough times, which the readers can all relate with at one time or the other during their own lifetime. Thesis Too much of anything is very dangerous. Analysis The writer is able to connect with the readers using the emotions that the piece elicits from them through the actions of Connie. It is thus much easier for the reader to understand the story and the main themes that the writer wants to put across, once they relate with the difficulties that Connie went through as a teen, as much as they did themselves. Ideally there is a school of thought that has never come to terms with the idea that a young teenage girl can up and leave with a total stranger as such this has been a source of debate for decades now unending. There is also the element of Connie having too much of pretty much everything that made her character and thus eventually vulnerable. One of her character that comes out as an excess in its self is her confidence. She is too confident that she develops a sense of security which is why she makes a lot of bad choices. This confidence had grown from the fact that she thought that she was very pretty than most average girls, which leads to her poor personality and even her reputation as she did not have a deep sense of reality. Her blur of the reality, made her very arrogant, since according to her she was pretty and that was everything that she needed in this life. The arrogance is evident even from the way that her mother treated her which was directly inverse of how her other sister was treated. While most mothers are more likely to boost the morale in their daughter, Connie’s mother is seen to shoot het down so that she would deflate her ego. At one time, when her mother asks her to go with them to the barbeque, she chose to stay back at home. In a bid to show her mother how lowly she thought of the barbeque with the family, she rolled her eyes in a very arrogant manner. Much of the Connie’s character is seen to be excessively arrogant and shallow. When Arnold comes to the scene, she does not seem to understand the situation. She is so blinded by her immaturity to figure out that this person would hurt her. Arnold was crafty and had spent time studying her and since Connie’s was not exactly very smart, she was easy to read through as Arnold did. She seemed more engulfed in the idea of pleasing the boys so that they would all like her. When she sneaked in to the drive-in restaurant, she ma...