Devils, Wolves, and Elvis Presley: Inspiration for Joyce Carol Oates" "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" Since it's first publication in 1966, Joyce Carol Oates's short story "Where are You Going? ... Bibliography: Oates, Joyce Carol "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" ... Life 1966 "Inspiration for Joyce Carol Oates" Copyright 2003 Courtroom Television Netweork LLC All Rights Reserved. ... "Spinell and Connie: Joyce Carol Oates Re-Imagining Thomas Mann?" ...

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The Life of Joyce Carol Oates and Her Story Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? Joyce Carol Oates is no doubt one of the greatest authors of her time it is obvious that her writings endure even today. ... Oates may have been showing characteristics of her own young adulthood through her character Connie. ... The way Oates describes Arnold as "a boy with shaggy black hair, in a convertible jalopy painted gold" (Oates 150) initiates fear in the reader. ... It is decided from this research of Oates biography and study of her story "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been" ...

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Arnold Friend: A Demonic Creature Joyce Carol Oates" "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" ... In Joyce Carol Oates "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" ... (Oates 152). ... (Oates 154). ... (Oates 156). ...

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In Joyce Carol Oates' story The Night Nurse', the author does a magnificent job incorporating many, if not all, of the plot devices described in Meyer. ... Oates begins the story in the middle of a plot. ... A woman, Oates describes, accustomed to exercising authority as the chief administrator of an arts council (Oates 655), and thinks herself a good person, well-liked, respected, and in good health (Oates 661). ... (Oates 662). ... Works Cited: Oates, Joyce Carol. ...

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Joyce Carol Oates? ... Oates portrays an image of a young girl trying to become a woman, and then being seduced and confused into going down the wrong path, which eventually leads to her suggested demise.Smooth Talk? ... Oates writes about a loss of innocence, while the movie tells of a further loss of innocence. ... But as Oates said herself in her essay on the movie, it lacked the emotional depth that the story had. ... is an excessive dramatization and sensualizing of Oates storyWhere Are You Going, Where Have You Been?? ...

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For this paper we will use the following short stories: "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner, "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall" by Katherine Ann Porter and "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been" by Joyce Carol Oates and discuss the characterization of three women found in those works. ... In the third short story, "Where are you going, where have you been" by Joyce Carol Oates, we are characterizing Connie. ...

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Since it's first publication in 1966, Joyce Carol Oates's short story "Where are You Going? ... One of the major influences in Oates's work is the lyrical content and music of Bob Dylan. ... By doing so, Connie is in fact taking a gamble, as she finds herself in unknown territory (Oates 2). ... Friend is only an inch or so taller than Connie, and "wobbled in his boots" as he approached her house (Oates 7). ... Through this integration of various other characters, themes, and events, Joyce Carol Oates was able to write her modern day fable, and create a gloomy portrait of a...

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False perceptions and stark realities are seen in Joyce Carol Oates' short story, "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" ... Oates illustrates Connie as a fifteen-year old girl who is trying to find herself as a woman. ... Oates describes Arnold's hair as looking like a wig. ... According to Oates, "It was an expression kids had used the year before but didn't use this year" (369). ... Joyce Carol Oates suggests that one's perception on something such as sexuality may not always be what it seems, such as in Connie's case. ...

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There are many similarities and differences between Anton Chekhov's "The Lady with the Pet Dog" set in Russia in the early part of the century and Joyce Carol Oates" "The Lady with the Pet Dog" told from Anna's point of view in the 1970's in Nantucket. ... These different literary techniques demonstrate the change from the male protagonist (Chekhov) to the female protagonist (Oates) and affect the development of the conflict in the two stories. ... Unlike Chekhov who focuses on the male lover Gurov, Oates makes Anna, the female lover, the center of consciousness .Oates is more ...

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In the story The Buck by Joyce Carol Oates she describes Woody as a "character" and as more or less a person who has no respect for the environment. ... In the story The Buck by Joyce Carol Oates she uses two great examples of people with differing views. ...

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- written by Joyce Carol Oates appears to be simply, a fictitious account of the grotesque actions of one Charles Schmid, a Tucson serial killer. ... In his article "Joyce Carol Oates's Where are you going, Where have you been as pure realism-, Coulthard argues that Oates's story is strictly, a written representation of a victim of the real-life murderer, Charles Schmid. ... In his article, "Impure Realism: Joyce Carol Oates's Where are you going, Where have you been?... Oates describes her as having a mind "filled with trashy daydreams- (149). ... - is simply Joyce Carol Oa...

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Joyce Carol Oates's "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?... The depth of her innocence becomes clear when Oates' writes, "but sometimes they went across the highway, ducking fast across the busy road, to a drive-in restaurant where older kids hung out." ... She represents a typical teenager struggling with the idea of coming of age that has dual versions of themselves as Oates put it, "one for home and one for anywhere that was not home." ... Oates writes that the previous night Connie had thrown caution to the wind and now she is coming to terms with her actions. ......

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"The Lady with the Pet Dog" is Joyce Carol Oates" updated version of Anton Chekov's "The Lady with the Dog". Oates did a wonderful job restructuring the plot and changing the protagonist from the man to the woman. ... However, Oates" modern version places the woman as the narrator, and by doing so unmistakably changes the theme to Love. ... "The Lady with the Pet Dog" is Joyce Carol Oates" updated version of Anton Chekov's "The Lady with the Dog". Oates did a wonderful job restructuring the plot and changing the protagonist from the man to the woman. ...

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In Joyce Carol Oates' "Where Are you Going, Where Have You Been" there is a clear interpretation of evil in Arnold Friend's portrayal of a demon who tries to lure Connie into his world of sex and emotion. Joyce Carol Oates seems to create scenarios of real life and center them into her story. ... (Oates 618). ... He warns her, "You won't want that"(Oates 623). ... The "vast sunlit reaches of land"(Oates 626) that Oates writes about are new experiences that Connie has never before experienced. ...

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Joyce Carol Oates" "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" tells us about the life of Connie who has no guidance in life, because her family has not provided any moral support to help through her teenage life. She only knows about popular culture and not the consequences that comes with it. With...

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"...she knew she was pretty and that was everything" (Oates, 14). ... Joyce Carol Oates overall described Connie as a pretty, young girl. ... "She always drew thick clear lines between herself and such girls- (Oates, 18). ... When Connie had time to relax, " her mind was filled with trashy daydreams" (Oates, 15). ... Joyce Carol Oates describes Connie from there different points in the story Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?. ...

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Well in Joyce Carol Oates's short story "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" ... His face was familiar to her somehow, too (Oates 707). ... r reason for which it is a dream is that Arnold Friend knew exactly where her family was, what they were wearing, and what they were doing (Oates 709 & 713). ... It is really hot outside so she went upstairs and listened to the radio for an hour and a half; it was the station "XYZ Sunday Jamboree" with "Bobby King" (Oates 705). ... In Joyce Carol Oates's short story "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" ...

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Having said that, Joyce Carol Oates, "Where are you going, Where Have you been?" ... He's at the barbecue" (Oates 701). ... Here breath was coming quickly" (Oates 701). ... I"m your lover, honey"" (Oates 701). ... (flannery O"Connor, Joyce Carol Oates) Nancy Bishop" writes, "Connie becomes more and more frightened as Arnold Friend makes sexual suggestions- (Dessommes). ...

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As in Joyce Carol Oates" short story Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? ... (Oates 427) Though a somewhat insulting stereotype of the adolescent, Connie serves this function perfectly. ... Arnold Friend's line "My sweet little blue-eyed girl"(Oates 443) is directly related to the Bob Dylan song It's All Over Now Baby Blue. This song was a source of inspiration for Oates in writing her story. ... It was true in the sixty's when Bob Dylan was popular and when Joyce Carol Oates wrote Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? ...

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Joyce Carol Oates is noted for her ability to create stories with terror and also known for the descriptive violence in her portrayals of America life. Oates wrote in many types of forms, but most of her books have strong elements of naturalism, a literary style emphasizing an objective presentation of life. Gothic elements, emphasizing the mysterious and horrifying aspects of life, also appear frequently in Oates's writing. ... According to Creighton, Oates brings Connie into a dream state and Arnold is mostly a part of her unconscious (147). ... Many elements of Oates" story are borro...

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Joyce Carol Oates tells "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" ... Oates" "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" ... Joyce Oates uses great metaphor and symbolism. ... Her breath was coming quickly" (Oates 507). ... "She cried out, she cried for her mother" (Oates 509). ...

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Joyce Carol Oates uses symbols of evil to illustrate the theme of temptation. Oates refers casually to hell through the character Arnold Friend, as the devil, and his victim Connie, who invites him in by committing one of the devil's favorites sins: vanity. ... In this quote, Oates suggests that Arnold Friend is hiding something more than an evil "look"; he is hiding his own satanic appearance. ... The last hint that Oates gives to the reader is the behavior of Connie and her family. ... Oates begins this story with this quote to emphasize the main cause of the tragic end of Connie&#x...

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After reading Joyce Carol Oates story " The Night Nurse" it was obvious that the main plot was that of revenge. The author did a wonderful job using rising action to set up the plot in the beginning of the story. As the story begins with the main character Grace Burkhardt collapsing of an unknown ai...

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Compared to the other characters in the short story "Where are you going, Where have you been?" by Joyce Carol Oates, the character Arnold Friend is one of the most developed and multifaceted. Besides have an intriguing personality, Arnold Friend is symbolic to the devil. Through out reading the ...

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by Joyce Carol Oates takes place in 1966. ... (Oates 380) Wow! ... (Oates 384) Arnold almost seems like he is death itself. ... (Oates 391) Throughout the story you see Connie as this bitchy conceited, selfish teenage girl, but at the end your heart goes out for her. ...

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