Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?

Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?         Connie leads a s shopping center town bearing and dreams of falling in love with a bad boy. In Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? by Joyce Carol Oates, music and boys are the controling force in Connies spirit, music especially. The music was always in the background like music at a church service, it was something to dep polish off on. (632). Her life is so greatly effected by the media that bad boys are glorified into being what every miss wants in a boyfriend. She loves to go out and look for boys that could be the perfect one. However, her dream rebellious man wasnt what she expected. In the end Connies fantasy turns into her worst nightmare.

Connie often spent hours lying distant listening to music on the wireless. Sometimes she would go to the mall or the movies and even at times went across the roadway to the diner. The diner was where more of the older and mature kids hung out. The music was over in the story, it is what kept everything in show.

        There are many an(prenominal) other times where the importance of music in her life was seen.



As Connie basks in the sun while the rest of her family gets pose to go to her aunts barbeque, she daydreams about the boy she had been with the night before and...how sugariness it always was...the way it was in movies and promised in songs. (633). After a little while of sitting around in the sun, souse its warm rays into her damp hair she turned on the radio to drown out the quiet. (634)         Connie wants to break from her mother, sister and father and shoo-in with a cute boy in a flog jacket, and a radio.

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