" In "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" Arnold successfully convinces Connie to ride with him by utilizing his own charismatic character, as well as his liking for music. In Mann's "Tristan," Detlev Spinell, a patient at a sanatorium, convinces Gabriel Kloterjahn, a young married woman, to play the clinic's piano. At the end of her performance, Spinell is seen on his knees in an unspoken act of desire. Alan D. Latta states, "Thus the basic motif informing both stories is the same: a young woman is seduced away from her family by a male who desires her, using the power of music as a weapon."(2) In answering the question of whether Oates is even familiar with his writing, she has on several occasions expressed her respect for it, stating that she wishes to be able to write even remotely as well as he. In an interview from 1969 Betty Lee quoted Oates as saying, "Ah, to be able to write like Thomas Mann or even to write a novel that Mann might approve of, even mildly- This stance, however, is only based upon inference, as there is no explicit link in "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" to "Tristan" for the general reader to detect.
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On a separate note, the characters of Arnold Friend and his associate Ellie Oscar are based upon a number of themes as well. Through his disposition and gestures, Friend can easily be viewed as a reincarnation of "Little Red Riding Hood's" "Big Bad Wolf." Like the Wolf, he is able to lure the female protagonist away from her family, friends, and moral judgment in an effort to rob her of innocence and purity. Like Red, Connie's inexperience leads her to ask Friend a number of either obvious or pointless questions regarding his presence at her house - all of which the answers are ultimately "To eat you my dear.".
This Wolf theory can be taken further by moving away from the idea that Friend's motive is to rape and kill Connie, and by believing that he is instead Satan performing his assigned task.
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