Sympathy For The Devil? The Rolling Stones once sang, “Please to meet you, hope you guess my name, but what’s puzzling you is the nature of my game.” On a recent trip home from Macon, this song was playing on the radio. I was reminded of the story Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been by Joyce Carol Oates. Although Oates wrote the story after listening to Bob Dylan’s song “It’s …showed first 75 words of 1184 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1184 total…him the ability to be all knowing. Nowhere in the story does Oates come out and say that Arnold Friend is the devil but many implications suggest that he is. This is why the song “Sympathy For The Devil” by the Rolling Stones fits this story so well. “Please to meet you, hope you guess my name.” (Arnold Friend or Satan?) “But what’s puzzling you is the nature of my game.” (friend or foe?).