Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been: A Comparative Analysis

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Modern society has many standards that people follow and accept: shake hands when meeting someone, do not pick nose in public, and bathe on a regular basis. Norms are just a few of the many different social needs in the world today. Abnormalities throw people through a loophole, cause confusion amongst each other, and contrast uniformity. Psychopaths lead to the death of individuals that conform to the standard and have no remorse for the action. They disrupt the flow of progress and end the life of another with no penalty of law. Psychopaths work to change how society thinks as a norm, such as a psychopath in “Cask of Amontillado,” “The Lottery,” and “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been.”
“Cask of Amontillado” shows how a calm person can hide envy and hate. Montresor works with Fortunato to reach the pipe that he has obtained with Amontillado. Fortunato has a
The townsfolk in “The Lottery” use a ritual from long past to keep the unlucky individuals out of the town by stoning them to death if he or she won. The stoning left no remorse over anyone of the town people as they were trying to finish by dinner and even encouraging the younger children to follow in their footsteps. The story “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been” depicts that the antagonist Arnold Friend is stalking the protagonist Connie into submission of a ride in his car that will require sexual interaction; he was going to get what he wanted or else Connie’s family would be injured or the house will be burned down. The psychopaths in the stories present themselves as the abnormal ones and seek to disrupt the norm in any way possible. The death of a person, rape, or even put to death for winning a ticket, has a psychopath in the group. Psychopaths cannot happen for the norm will not function or work at its full