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Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been: Analysis

Posted on January 30, 2020January 30, 2020 by JL Admin

Since Joyce Carol Oates’s phenomenal appearance on the literary scene in the mid-1960s, she has certainly been one of America’s most prolific and talked-about writers. The author of more than twenty novels and numerous volumes of short stories, poems, plays, and essays, she has drawn the attention of readers and critics alike. Whatever one’s opinion…

Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been: Setting

Posted on January 30, 2020January 30, 2020 by JL Admin

The Women’s Movement  Interest in women’s equal rights was a subject of great controversy during the early years of Oates’s career leading up to “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” The 1960s and early 1970s marked the escalation of the women’s movement. Economic shifts meant that more women worked outside the home, and…

Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been: Literary Elements

Posted on January 29, 2020January 29, 2020 by JL Admin

Point of View  The first line of “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?”—”Her name was Connie “— signals that it is being told by a third-person narrator. This narrative voice stays closely aligned to Connie’s point of view. The reader learns what her thoughts are, but the narrator provides no additional information or…

Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been: Themes

Posted on January 29, 2020January 29, 2020 by JL Admin

The tale of an insecure, romantic teenage girl drawn into a situation of foreboding violence,”Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” presents several themes that arise from the interaction of sharply drawn characters engaged in psychological manipulation.  Appearances and Reality  Connie prides herself as a skilled flirt who has never been in a situation…

Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been: Characters

Posted on January 29, 2020January 29, 2020 by JL Admin

Connie  Fifteen-year-old Connie exhibits the confusing, often superficial behavior typical of a teenage girl facing the difficult transition from girlhood to womanhood. She is rebellious, vain, self-centered, and deceitful. She is caught between her roles as a daughter, friend, sister, and object of sexual desire, uncertain of which one represents the real her: “Everything about…

Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been: Summary

Posted on January 29, 2020January 29, 2020 by JL Admin

Connie is a fifteen-year-old teenager growing up in suburbia in the 1960s. She is preoccupied with typical teenage concerns: her looks and popular music. She argues with her mother, makes fun of her older, plainer sister, and hangs out with her friends in restaurants, movie theaters, and shopping malls. During these summertime social ventures, she…

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