Connie is a fifteen year old girl, who loves grooming and looking at herself in the mirror. Her mom tells her to be just like her sister June. Connie’s mom is against her looking in the mirror.
I think Connie’s mom know what's best for Conne, who is only 15 years old. The mom probably sees the big picture and connie should be just enjoying life and not be worrying about how she looks at her age.
Connie’s older sister june is 24 years old. She works as a secretary at Connie’s school. Connie is constantly compared to JUne because she helps out around the house and has a job, but Connie doesn’t
It can be really frustrating at times when parents compare their kids to other members in the family. My parents method of improving my grades in schools was to say good things
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A guy in gold convertible scares connie away saying, “Gonna get you, baby”.
I think she just got the wrong guys attention . Connie was just having enjoying herself, but now she has a mysterious guy on her trail.
Connie’s family leave for a barbecue and leave Connie alone at home. The gold convertible car appears at her driveway
Connie must feel very scared because she has no clue who the guy is and has gotten his predatory attention. I think she’ll be kidnapped.
The guy walks up and states his name is Arnold and wants Connie to go on a ride with him. Arnold reveals that he know where her family is and will hurt them if she tried to reach for the phone to call the police.
If I were in Connie’s situation, I would run the opposite direction as fast as possible because it’s either do or die at this point. Arnold makes it very clear that the door is very easy for him to break.
Arnold promises to not come the house unless she touches the phone, Connie run and grabs the phone and is paralyzed by the roar through the phone.
I think that Arnold is the devil and came to collect Connie’s soul. She must have made a deal with the devil to make her pretty
A theme that runs through this story is that music seems to be the bridge from the real world into Connie's fantasy world. She doesn't know what she wants, but it's got something to do with "the music that made everything so good." When Arnold Friend drove up the driveway, Connie was listening to music, "bathed in a glow of slow-pulsed joy." She soon discovered that he was playing the same music in his car. This is not a coincidence; I think it makes a connection in the back of Connie's mind. And, the story says that it seemed to Connie like Arnold "had come from nowhere," and "belonged nowhere," and that everything about him "was only half real."
Connie, from “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been”, wants to rebel against her family. She uses her attractiveness to flirt with boys at the local restaurant behind their backs as a form of rebellion. She feels as though her family does not appreciate her; her father does not pay any attention to her and her mother constantly compares her to her sister, criticizing her every move and asking why she cares so much about her appearance. On one of her outings she sees a boy who she vainly chooses to ignore. Later he shows up at her house posing as her friend, calling himself Arnold Friend, and talking to her as though he is another boy she flirts with down at the diner and pretending to be her age. She subtly flirts with him at first, only realizing the danger when it is too late.
Connie is a pretty girl to into her own attractiveness that eventually gets her into trouble with a guy named Arnold. In the beginning of the story Oates say that she had a “habit of craning her neck to glance into mirrors or checking other people's faces to make sure her own was all right” (Oates). In the world that we live in, this desperation exploits a sense of immaturity because she believes everything revolves around whether or not someone is beautiful. Additionally, Connie obsession with herself is so great that “she knew she was pretty and that was everything” which makes Connie look immature (Oa...
The main character is fifteen year old Connie. Connie is a typical rebellious teenager trying to find her independence. She constantly disobeys her mother and hasn’t a care in the world. Connie’s character does not really change through the story so much as the author adds more details about her. I do feel a sense of sympathy for Connie, because her mother is constantly comparing Connie to her sister. I believe Connie’s foil is her sister because she is constantly being compared to her.
Initially, Oates portrays Connie as an extremely conceded young woman. "She was fifteen and she had a quick nervous habit of craning her neck to glance into mirrors or checking other people's faces to make sure her own was all right." Oates set the tone for Connie's character by that statement alone. It was obvious that Connie was a pretty girl but what was more obvious is that Connie knew it. Connie's conceded quality was first revealed as she "gawked" at herself in a mirror to the point where it angered her mother. I imagine Connie's mother was probably talking to her and realized she was not paying attention to anything she said, fascinated by the reflection.
Oates drew the character of Connie very well - she possesses many of the qualities that teenaged children share. According to developmental psychologists, adolescents become highly critical of siblings, and peer relationships take precedence over familial ties during these years (Feldman, 455). These traits are apparent in Connie’s unflattering description of her older sister June, “…she was so plain and chunky…” (209) and the fact that Connie spends many nights out with friends, but refuses to attend an afternoon picnic with her family (211).
Oates write that Connie has a “habit of craning her neck to glace into mirrors or checking other people’s faces to make sure her own was all right (312).” Connie was deceptive with her family and with her friends her mother always told her about why he can be like her sister. Her sister June a twenty-four years old and still living at home.
Arnolds uses his charms and good looks when he enters to start off his adventure. It is clear that Connie enjoyed
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Two minutes later, Theresa arrived at the school and when witnesses said they saw Jimmy enter a van, Theresa called 911. Under 4 minutes after the call, police cars came rushing in and the officers and detectives began questioning and investigating.
Connie has the need to be viewed as older and as more mature than she really is, all the while still displaying childlike behavior. She shows this childlike behavior by “craning her neck to glance in mirrors [and] checking other people’s faces to make sure her own was all right” (Oates 323). This shows that Connie is very insecure and needs other people’s approval. Although on one side she is very childish, on the other side she has a strong desire to be treated like an adult. This longing for adulthood is part of her coming of age, and is demonstrated by her going out to “bright-lit, fly-infested restaurant[s]” and meeting boys, staying out with those boys for three hours at a time, and lying to her parents about where she has been and who she has been with (Oates 325, 326). “Everything about her ha[s] two sides to it, one for home and one for anywhere that was not home” (Oates 324). Even her physical movements represent her two-sided nature: “her walk that could be childlike and bobbing, or languid enough to make anyone think she was hearin...
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As soon as Barrett saw her he said “why do you come to see me you know it is illegal and could get thrown in jail.”
tells him to leave because he might be in danger .He asks her to give him something
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