Review Of Connie's Story 'Where Are You Going Where Have You Been?'

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Was she Dreaming? If Connie’s story was not about her house but it was about her body trying to give send message? One of the biggest questions that the reading leaves us is what happened with Connie after she decided to go with Arnold Friend. I have decided to conclude that she just woke up and that the whole story was her body and her teenager hormones playing a trick on her mind while she was asleep. From the moment that Connie saw the “boy with shaggy black hair, in a convertible jalopy painted gold” (Oates, Joyce. Where Are You Going Where Have You Been? Pg. 1) she found herself facing new experiences and new feelings caused by what this person that clearly gave her the attention she was looking for and enjoyed so much. Furthermore what kind of girl wouldn’t like to say that the person that they are going out with has a car and is older that her; it was just the kind of person that she wanted at that moment with her. In addition to the attention that …show more content…
2). This is where I would presume that Connie’s not-so-real story begins; when she wakes up late on a Sunday and nobody went to church. People like Connie’s mother and father aren’t the kind of people who would just say “OK no Sunday church day today!” Let me remind everyone that the setting of the story is on the late 70’s early 80’s and the how Connie describes her parents in the story as well as her sister. Connie’s family will fit perfectly on a religious family, the absent father, the disapproving mother and her perfect sister but is just my appreciation of this kind of families. So why would no one wake up for church? Furthermore they planned to go to a barbeque with Connie’s family and they agreed with the idea of Connie staying home alone. I believe that Connie’s mother answer "Stay home alone then" (Pg. 2) was not something that such a disapproving mother would say but, instead something that a Connie wants to do but never
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