Where Are You Goin Where Have You Been

Diana Artishuk
ENGWR 301
Scheinder
February 13, 2011
Essay#1
Word Count 1,056
Where Are You Going, Where develop You Been?
Connie is the main(prenominal) character in Joyce hum Oates Where Are You Going Where Have You Been? She is a fifteen-year-old girl, just realizing her beauty. It is summer vacation, and she is spending her time each with boys or daydreaming about them. Connie is a typical jejune girl with a desperate need for independence. Connie fit into the stereoscopic picture typical role of a teenage girl, like closely of them do. She is completely focused on her looks and receiving the attention of the taking, older boys. throughout the story, the reader give births a chance to non only tell Connies physical and social fonts, but her emotional side as well.
Connies physical characteristics are that of a sane fifteen year old girl. She was described as having long, dark, blonde hair that she wore …part pulled up on her head and smoke out and the rest she let fall down her rachis (Oates 428). Connie had deep brown eyes that reflected nicely off of her blond hair. Connie was engulfed in the fact that she was charming. closely girls want to be attractive and noticed, but for Connie that was the only thing she had. Connie felt as if she stayed beautiful then all would be fine.



The author even says, She knew she was evenhandedly and that was everything.(427) this is a problem because when a girl is materialistic wad assume that she has no morals and they take advantage of that. When she spoke, she had a high, breathless, amused voice that allowed the reader to imagine Connie in a child-like manner. She had thin wrists which she would always wear jingling charm bracelets. Joyce Carol Oates overall described Connie as a pretty, young girl.
Most teenage girls have two different sides concerning their social aliveness; the side they show to their parents and the side they show to their friends or peers. Connie was not different. At home, she did not want to do the...If you want to get a full essay, order it on our website: Ordercustompaper.com



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