Where are you going, where have you been? By Joyce Carol Oates. Connie a fifteen years old girl who her life is defined by her relationship to boys or men. She let romance fills her thoughts and her reunions with other girls are simply a pretext for approaching boys. She praises beauty above all, she knew she was pretty and that was everything that she needed to make it out in life. She spent most her time glanced at the mirror and raised her eyebrows at her mother. “she had a quick nervous giggling habit of craning her neck to glance into mirrors, or checking other people’s faces to make sure her own was all right”. Despite her experiments with adulthood and sexuality, she is still a child. When faced with harm, she cries out for her mother. …show more content…
He never bother talking to the girls about anything. Which might be a result why she always want to meet up with boys because sometimes girls do need a little bit of attention from their fathers. Therefore the mother always nagging Connie telling her why she can’t be more like her sister June, who is twenty four years old, still lived at home and have a job as a secretary and she helped with the bills at home. Connie feel so paranoid by her mother always nagging in her ears that she wish both of them was dead. Sometimes nagging in a child ears about their own life expectations might push them even further away from their parents especially if they have no interest in being a better person for