Character Analysis Of Connie In Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been

In this story Connie is a teenager whonhas a very protective mother wh she clearly does not like her. Her mother is very mean to her because she was so pretty but her being pretty got her in to a bad situation. She was very rebelish and would go out on the weekend hanging out with boys and sneak around. But one night she met someone that she in the future wishes she never met.Connie is a teenager that wants freedom from her mom and wants to get out. She is very rebelish and wants the fame in her school. She is very beutifull and cant resist attention. In the story we meet Arnold Fried who is the creapiest guy ever. His
Personality is creepy all together. He tries to get whith younger people by trying to act nice, dress like them and and try to put on makeup to look young. In Where are you going, Where have you been, Carol Oats uses chrecterization to foreshadow the outcome of Connie being taken by Arnold Friend.

Connie can’t resist attentcion even from strangers even if they are older and complementing in strange ways.
Connie is a charecter hat has a

rebelish personlaity and wants all the attention she can get. She has two personalitys for when she is out and hanging out with her friends sneaking around town and when she is at school she thinks that she is better then evryone and is very arrogant. When Connie is out she is hanging out with boys and “sometimes they went across the highway ducking fast acrossacross the road, to a drive in where older kids hung out”(ph6, line1-2). She wants to be seen out of her house as a cool person and a very atractive person. Connie is just a little to confident with her self. She thi;nks that she is the higher power of kids and wants to be noticed as cool. When her and her friends where out and about a kid waved them over to his car then they saw “it was just a boy from highschool who they didnt like. It mad them feel good to be able to ignore him.”(ph6, line4-5). She can’t get enough of her self. She wants to be the cool person even though at home she is the only one getting yelled at. She tries to keep that home life away by being as much as a cool kid as possible.
Connie is rebelish and does things out of the house that she would never do like sneak around or be rude to kids

Arnold friend is a guy that seems to be a very kind and thrilling person trying to flert with some girls.

Well from what we learn latrer we find out what he truly is out for. When Connie was out with her friends she cant help but resist looking at this gold car. Within the car Arnold is lurching and searching for Connie. As Connie was walking by Anold with a smirk says “Im gonna get you baby”(ph7-line7). He seems that he is justa guy that wants to get whith this atractive young lady. But he has been following her closely for a very long time. When he pulls into her driveway she goes out side to talk. After they have been talking for a wile and he gets closer she “could see that he wasnt a kid, he was much older, thirty maby more”(pg5-ph14-line1). Arnold tries to convince Connie that he is her age but he clearly is not. He seems to be whereing a mask. This is when we realize that connie is in seriouse

trouble.
Latert on in the story Arnold starts to threaten Connie and her family the story ends with only the reader to believe that he raips Connie.
Arnold Friend is a very creepy guy even from the begining and ends up going to her house and taking her for himself.