Where Are You Going Where You Been Summary

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Joyce Carol Oaes • Began writing in 1963 • Themes of writing : violence, brutality, and emotional disturbance • Born in new york atteneded Syracuse university and university of Wisconsin • English professor at Detroit unvertity for 20 years, now a professor at Princeton • *Joyce Carol Oates was inspired to write "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" after reading an account in Life magazine of a charismatic but insecure young man who had enticed and then killed several girls in Tucson, Arizona, during the early 1960s. Transformed into fiction, this story was first published by the literary Journal Epoch in 1966 Summary Connie was your averaged 15 year old teenager girl. Nothing mattered to her…show more content…
She strugggles tp the fact of being controlled, however towards the end Arnold starts to reflect the person that connie is towards her mother and becomes evident that control was an issue of verbal manipulations but with Arnold it’s the whole package. o the resistance she shows Arnold reflects the same resitance she shows her mother. • Resemblances of reality and the difference of men and women o The storey is set in the 60’s and the 60’s was an era where women were becoming more open, with wearing clothes the revealed skin to the struggle of equality o The storey reflects such struggle of fairness that resemble today’s society ▪ Men are more controlling figures and this the role Arnold plays ▪ Women now adays are more like objects to men. Something to look at and own. Connie plays the role that women. • fear o In the storey connie starts getting dizzy at almost everypoint in which Arnold become to over power her which results her to become more fearful ▪ When Arnold lies about his…show more content…
Both oblivious to there daughters and there lives ▪ Connies dad never speaks to her and preety much does not care what she does ▪ Connies best friend bettys dad rops them off at the mall the mall and picks them up at night at 11, clueless of the facts of what they have

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