However, for the duration of the story Connie struggles amid her innocence in addition to the evil that attempts to devour her. ... Oates uses symbols such as color imagery and music, and Connie's familiar world to illustrate how Connie is caught between two worlds: adolescence, understood to be innocence and adulthood, understood to be the consumption of her innocence. ... On the contrary, dark imagery signifies evil or the devourer of innocence. ... Connie's symbolic representation through light imagery or innocence was devoured by Arnold's dark imagery or evil. ... However, o...

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