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Where are you going?
Title: Where are you going?
Category: Literature / Novels
Details: Words: 545 | Pages: 2.3 (approximately 235 words/page)
Where are you going?
“Where are you going, where have you been?” is a short story written by Joyce Carols Oates, which describes a strange man named Arnold Friend who is obsessed over a young teenager named Connie. Arnold Friend is much older than Connie and cannot be said to be like a child, yet he lures Connie out by using imagery from childhood. He talks to her partly like a lover and a person of authority, he fakes …showed first 75 words of 545 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 545 total…she could’ve easily used pronouns. Thus she underlines the overwhelming presence of Arnold Friend, as a symbolic figure of a devil. Oates also constructs Arnold Friend as Connie’s only hope; her universe, her only escape and he alienate her from her house and surrounding. And like a puppet master he controls her strings, pushes her into doing something she would never do consciously, only a devil could do such a thing like this.
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