Heidi Kozlowski
English 1B
September 28, 2014
Where Are you Going, Where HaveYou Been? Analysis “Where Are you Going, Where Have You Been? Is a short story by Joyce Carol Oates about a fifteen year old girl’s that lives a dual life for self-importance, an unforgiving desire for irresponsibility, yet doubtfulness to leave the security of family and the comfort ‘of sleeping on her bed again’ ( Oates 77) . Connie is a young girl that likes listening to music ‘that made everything so good” (Oates 66) and watching movies and also she spends a lot of time going out with friends and meeting boys, until she experiences been harassed and threatened by an older guy, leading her to go with him.
From the beginning of the story,