The Life Changing Decisions In A&P And Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?

• Character
• Where Are You Going Where Have You Been

As this is the most popular short story of Joyce Carol Oates, ‘Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?’, is the story of a teenage girl who is facing some issues in her life. This story has highlighted the thought process and actions of a teenager woman and the Connie character which can show that how a teenage girl face so many changes in her character while trying to switch from adulthood to womanhood. The story further explains about Arnold Friend who has seduce the young woman and in...

• Where Are You Going Where Have You Been

“Where Are You Going, Where Are You Been” follows the story of a self-absorbed teen named Connie who meets a smooth charmer named Arnold. However, curiosity killed the cat as his personality and behavior got the best of Connie as she runs off with him. The author, Joyce Carol Oates has used the classic Bluebeard tale with this story set in the 1960s. While reading this short story, there is a lot of detail and meaning going on from the perspective of Connie as she is put into a situation of...

• Rape
• Where Are You Going Where Have You Been

‘’Where are you going, where have you been?'' Is set to be in suburban of America in the 1960’s, a global change the sex revolution, women lacked important control over their lives. In Joyce Carol Oates one can see how she views particularly effective on the American life as a situation of invasion, abduction, rape and murder in the modern society. However, there are many themes found throughout the story, these themes is mainly focus on the antagonist which is been seen driving cars and not...

• Short Story
• Where Are You Going Where Have You Been

There are multiple pieces of evidence that point towards the fact that Connie had quite literally met Satan. There are too many for it to be a coincidence; not only were there numerous counts of imagery that pointed toward Arnold being Satan himself, but he was also performing actions that limited Connie’s sense of individuality. Not only was Satan capable of knowing things that only she and people very close to her would have known, but he was able to perform actions that hurt Connie...

• Short Story
• Where Are You Going Where Have You Been
• Young Goodman Brown

Both stories “Young Goodman Brown” and “Where Are You Going Where Have You Been,” include protagonists that communicate with forces of evil in their normal lives. A few may believe that the evilness comes from within the characters themselves, but others may believe comes from within the Devil himself. The evil figure in “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been” is way more dangerous than the protagonist in “Young Goodman Brown” because the Devil’s presence is more evil, dangerous, and life...

• Literature Review
• The Yellow Wallpaper
• Where Are You Going Where Have You Been

In a general sense, women are supposed to share the same rights as men; however, throughout the centuries, women have suffered under men’s control. Men have been viewing women as their personal property in varying degrees, using their power to create a pattern that shapes women‌’s characters in our society and to create rules for women to follow. Under such a societal structure, there is a dominant power in the male social class that has caused women’s rights to be oppressed in many...

• Where Are You Going Where Have You Been

Desire is at the heart of human existence. Joyce Carol Oates explores desire as an outgrowth Freud’s Theory of Personality Modes in her short story Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been. Desire is an expansive concept. It can be classified in many ways, as many different things. In general, it is most commonly seen in two ways: it may be seen more narrowly as “passionate sexual desire” (Hofmann & Nordgren 5), or it can be understood in a broader sense, encompassing “all sorts of ideals and...

• Short Story
• Where Are You Going Where Have You Been

The belief of valuing a human’s life may be inherent and unequivocal by most people. Nevertheless, there are people in the world that do not acknowledge the importance of one’s life and choose to be careless over the fact and proceed to take advantage of anyone, regardless of the consequences. These types of people were either taught not to value humanity at birth or elect to treat others as objects or use them as pawns to further their own personal gain. In the short story “Where Are You...

• Problem of Evil
• The Crucible
• Where Are You Going Where Have You Been

The majority of people have enough common sense to make the split-second decision in favor of good over evil. However, the friction between good and evil is an immense conflict for those without proper reasoning. In The Crucible and “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” two characters, Abigail Williams and Arnold Friend, without thinking of the consequences behind their behavior, attempt to plan, execute and commit evil actions for the benefit of themselves. Due to their alarming...