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Summary Of Oates' "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been"
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In Joyce Carol Oates' "Where Are you Going, Where Have You Been",
there is a clear interpretation of evil in Arnold Friend and how he as a
demon tries to pull Connie into the dark world of sex and emotion. Oates
seems to extract scenarios of real life and add th .... Middle of Essay
.... "(She) wansta come for a ride." (Oates 1012).
Arnold seems to be pressuring Connie from the start and is obviously not
there just to take her for a ride. The "ride" that Arnold talks of could
possibly even have a sexual connotation that Connie does not pick up on
because she is so young and blind to the world of sexual pleasures that
Arnold lives in. Oates chooses words too carefully to show that Arnold is
a devious snake. Connie sees Arnold many times as an evil character and
letting the reader know by describing Arnold as a "pumpkin, except it wore
sunglasses." (Oates 1013). In this passage Connie relates Arnold to a
Halloween figure and in the ....
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