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...? Literary Analysis: Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? Introduction A great interest of the contemporaries to the short story by Joyce Carol Oates "Where are you going, where have you been" can be explained by the author’s positioning of Arnold Friend as an imaginative figure representing either a lover, a nightmare, a devil, a dream or other possible images. What is so special about this character and who he really is? The character is so bizarre...
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...Literary Analysis Essay “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been,” by Joyce Carol Oates Part Joyce Oates does a wonderful job in her short story “where are you going, where have you been”. The title of the story is questionable and leaves many readers with open question as whether Connie left with the two strangers. Connie the main character is a teenage girl who is expressed as undergoing adolescent challenges. The...
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...College Joyce Carol Oates “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” Analysis Oates Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? is astory that narrates of psychological effects of feeling rejected involving the character Connie. The story is a narration of the way one may act in a weird behavior with such actions justified by the mental conflict that such a character has undergone in their lives. Connie portrays a reaction of internal...
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... June 5, Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been by Joyce Carol Oates The short story “Where Are You Going, WhereHave You Been” by Joyce Carol Oates is replete with literary elements that could be evaluated in greater depth and detail. One would hereby present a more intensive analysis of the characters in the story, as well as an assessment of their exhibited behavior. Likewise, one would also present the connection between Arnold Friend and Bob Dylan, as well as the social revolution that is being exemplified through the characters and events that evolved. The character of Connie is very dynamic and carefully crafted. Actually, her character epitomizes the typical teenager of contemporary times: curious, fun-loving, exhibiting... a work...
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... WHERE ARE YOU GOING WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN The focal point of the paper is to present an analysis and evaluation of the short story by Joyce Carol Oates named Where Are You Going Where Have You Been This story was first published in the Fall issue of Epoch magazine in 1966. It was highly acclaimed in its time and was a part of the The Best American Short Stories in 1967 and the O Henry Award Winners in 1968. This story narrates the sexual advances in the midst of a time that represents the idea and philosophy of the beat culture along with its attempt to change and ignore all traditional concepts. However, what comes out of the story is the lust of Arnold and the opportunity to blend the nihilist ideology of the era into personal... in social,...
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... A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O'Connor and Where are you going, where have you been? by Joyce Carol Oates
A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O'Connor and Where are you going,where have you been? by Joyce Carol Oates have one element that is the same. Both protagonists, the grandmother in A Good Man is Hard to Find and Connie in Where are...
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...Going, Where Have You Been?” by Joyce Carol Oates through her characters Connie and Arnold Friend as well as in “Black Men in Public Space” by Brent Staples through the narrator’s own experiences.
The first character to be introduced in Oates’ story is Connie, a teenaged girl just beginning to discover the world outside of her parents’ home. As this character is examined, a trope is revealed in her name itself. According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, one of the definitions of ‘trope’ is “a word or expression used in a figurative sense” (2009). Connie’s name suggests a person...
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...Where are you going, where have you been? Joyce carol Oates describes the psychological and social turmoil of adolescents that aroused during the 1960s in ‘Where are you going, where have you been?’ The story is demonstrated through the life of the central character Connie, a fifteen year old teenager, who leads a pleasant life with her family. As a cultural document of 1960s, the story exposes the deterioration of innocent America and it reveals the...
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...Number] Comparison The story “Where are you going, where have you been?” by Joyce Carol Oates, was written in the year 1966. It revolves around a girl, Connie, who is very self centred, though being only 15, she goes out with friends claiming to be going to the mall when actually going a restaurant where bad boys hang out. One evening she grabs the attention of a man who threatens to be watching over her. She takes this lightly and is astonished when one Sunday the man, Arnold, stands on her porch with his friend Ellie...
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...closer to his life), originality treatment - far more or less laudatory biographies devoted to Marilyn - and his tone. Joyce Carol Oates, for his poetic pen, sometimes dips into this tiny life to bring out the essence and break the perfect public image of Norma Jeane. Where to stop the memories? Where does the myth? And how this is all known life fictionalized here? I remain unanswered, but thats not the point.
I was fairly skeptical initiating reading this novel and its size - 1100 pages - made me very scared. I quickly left trap. If you do not know the life of Marilyn - this was my case - you are completely unable to...
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