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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about how my cousin was doing so well in school. Connie’s father has very little time on his hand. He works most of the time, he only comes home for supper and reads newspaper most of the time. He neglects to communicate with his daughters. I can totally relate to this because my dad works really hard. He used to juggle between 2 to 3 jobs at a time. In that time my mom was responsible for teaching and reprimanding my brother and I. Connie is allowed to hang out with her friends because June also goes out. I feel that Connie is very spoiled, she is seeking love in the wrong places. She behaves like a typical teenager, who don’t think their family is cool. The father of connie’s best friend drops them both off at the shopping plaza, but instead they go to a drive-in restaurant to look for boys. I think Connie is digging a hole for herself to bury because she is just looking for trouble. Eddie invites Connie to have dinner with him.
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
unintentionally. Arnold compelled Connie to come out of the house. She had no control of her actions. He tells her to pick the phone up and hang it and walk outside . It was a little confusing because we don’t really get to see what happened afterwards.
Arnolds uses his charms and good looks when he enters to start off his adventure. It is clear that Connie enjoyed
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.
I think in some strange way Arnold becomes to Connie the way to escape into her fantasy. When she learns his true intentions she is scared to death at first but eventually that fear gives way to "an emptiness." Connie thinks, "I'm not going to see my mother again... I'm not going to sleep in my bed again.
Connie is only concerned about her physical appearance. She can be described as being narcissistic because "she had a quick, nervous giggling habit of craning her neck to glance into mirror or checking other people's faces to make sure her own was all right" (Oates 148). Connie wants her life to be different from everyone else's in her family. She thinks because she is prettier, she is entitled to much more. She wants to live the "perfect life" in which she finds the right boy, marries him, and lives happily ever after. This expectation is nothing less than impossible because she has not experienced love or anything like it. She has only been subjected to a fantasy world where everything is seemingly perfect. This is illustrated in the story when Connie is thinking about her previous encounters with boys: "Connie sat with her eyes closed in the sun, dreaming and dazed with the warmth about her as if this were a kind of love, the caresses of love, and her mind slipped over onto thoughts of the boy she had been with the night before and how nice he had been, how gentle, the way it was in movies and promised in songs" (151).
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...
When approached by Arnold Friend at first, she was skeptical but was still charmed by him. As she began to feel uneasy, Connie could have used her intuition to realize that he was trouble. Once she had been engaged by Arnold, her life was over. The influences on Connie and her lack of instilled reasoning led to her down fall. Her family’s fragmented nature was echoed in her actions; consequently, she was unable to communicate with her parents, and she was never was able to learn anything of significance. She felt abandoned and rejected, because no one took the initiative to teach her how to make good decisions. Connie was unable to mature until she was faced with death and self sacrifice. In the end, her situation made it difficult for her to think and reason beyond the position she was in. By not being able apply insight, she fell into Arnold Friends lure. Misguidance by the parents strongly contributed to Connie’s
Connie’s clothes and infatuation with her own beauty symbolize her lack of maturity or knowing her true self, which in the end enables her to be manipulated by Arnold Friend. Connie was enamored with her own beauty; in the beginning of the story Oates states that Connie “knew
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).
Mrs. Jones picks him up and puts him in a headlock. People are stopping and
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.
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.
tells him to leave because he might be in danger .He asks her to give him something
The voice on the other end he didn’t recognize. "Somethin’ awful happened to Sally. Better git over there quick," and hung up.
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.”
The three girls continued back to their cars drifting further and further from the boisterous noises coming from the still going on high school graduation party. When the girls reached their cars Spencer asked “Kylee are you sure you don’t want a ride?” Kylee shook her head, “No it’s fine. My house is only about 10 minutes from here.”. So, Spencer and Mali Koa got into their cars and drove off, leaving Kylee to walk home.