Priscilla T. Daza English 52 Where are you going, where have you been?

Where are you going, Where have you been? is a story about a 15 year old girl name Connie. It simply commences with the relationship Connie has with her mother. It describes Connie as a pretty girl who believed that being pretty was everything. Now, I believe the story was well written. I enjoyed the detailed descriptions throughout the story. Everything I imagined in my head as I was reading was vivid. I find it interesting how Oates would describe everything single thing from the way Connie spoke down to the way Arnold Friend was standing. It was intriging how Oates describe Arnold Friend's voice on paragragh 27 as "She recognized all of this and also the singsong way he talked, slightly mocking, kidding, but serious and a little meloncholy..." I find it contradicitng and difficult to understand how a person's voice can sound mocking, kidding, serious and meloncholy all at once. My favorite about that description is how she described Arnold Friends voice singsong. For some reason that jsut blew my mind. But thats just whats great about Oates form of writing. Professor Hsiao warned us on Wednesday how this story can be weird. I just took it as another form of wierd like its off or something. The thing is the story was strange. I think Hsiao even said it was creepy and it was in the sense that Arnold Friend knew all of Connie's information from the names of her friends down to where her parents where at that Sunday. What bothered me the most was how Connie just stood by the screen door. It certainly did not keep me from continuing to read more. She should not have gone to open the screen door in the first place. See I was raised not to open the doors, I was raised to peek through the windows and stay quiet. I understand that Connie was 15 and there would be no point to the story if she had not been pushing the screen door open and close. Okay that is fine. It was just creepy and strange. Aronold Friend would say how he was Connie's lover and he will hold her tight so ehe will not get away was insane. What a way to make someone feel uncomfortable. Its disturbing for a young girl to here that from strange, older man. The ending of the story left me hanging. After reading it I said out loud, "There must be some mistake. There has to be more to the story." Point is the story was intense and well it kept me interested. I dont know about anyone else.