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Welcome to the wild world of Joyce Carol Oates.) One night, Connie goes out with some friends, and ends up on a kinda-sorta date with a guy named Eddie. On their way to Eddie's car, Connie catches the eye of another guy in a gold-painted convertible. The guy wags his finger at her and says, "Gonna get you baby" (7).
It is Connie’s mature, seductive appearance when she’s out—itself a sort of costume—that then attracts the strange, deeply deceptive Arnold Friend. When Friend first catches a glance of Connie, he can’t stop staring, and says, “ [I’m] Gonna get you, baby”—a creepy moment that foreshadows her abduction. Later, Friend admits ...
Screenplay / Produced / Directed / Edited by: Jacob Turrentine. Based on the Short Story by: Joyce Carol Oates. Co-Producer: Scott R. Meyers. Cinematographer: Oscar D. Rivera. Casting Director: Vicky Boone. Key Grip / Assistant Editor: Jacob Sacks. Hair / Make-up: Sarah Joffe. Sound Recording: Michael Barnett.
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Joyce Carol Oates's prize-winning story "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" takes up troubling subjects that continue to occupy her in her fiction: the romantic longings and limited options of adolescent women; the tensions between mothers and daughters; the sexual victimization of women; and the American obsession with violence.
In 1962, 'The Fine White Mist of Winter, ' composed when the author was 19 years old, appeared in The Literary Review and was selected for both the O. Henry Awards and Best American Short Stories of that year. The wheel of love: In the region of ice ; Where are you going, where have you been? ; Unmailed, unwritten letters ; Accomplished desires ...
Since its publication, "Where Are You Going" has received a considerable amount of attention, particularly due to its ambiguous nature. The plot itself is rather simple. Set in The '60s , the story revolves around a beautiful, rather self-absorbed 15-year-old girl named Connie who is at odds with her family as she tries to explore her budding ...
the running yelling kids and the flies. Connie sat with her eyes closed in the sun, dreaming and dazed with the warmth about her as if this were. a kind of love, the caresses of love, and her mind slipped over onto thoughts of the boy she had been with the night before and how nice he.
