Where_Are_You_Going__Where_Have_You_Been_

Where Are You Going' Where Have You Been' Compared to the other characters in the short story “Where are you going, Where have you been'” by Joyce Carol Oates, the character Arnold Friend is one of the most developed and multifaceted. Besides have an intriguing personality, Arnold Friend is symbolic to the devil. Through out reading the text I came to the conclusion that Arnold friend is a rounded character due to how his personality is close to reality. Arnold Friend’s complexity and contradictive ways was noticed when the main character Connie is caught by his gaze in a crowded parking lot for cars. Arnold sat in his gold colored convertible and watched every move that Connie made. As he watched her pass by he said, “Gonna get you baby.” Arnold Friend’s first impression was that of a regular teenage boy with an abundance of confidence. Later on in the text Arnold’s character develops further. An example of this is when he swiftly arnold, connie, character, friend, mind, devil, watched, text, symbolic, play, personality, one, made, go, friend’s, family, convertible, contradictive, colored, being, able, words, wearing, weak, ways, victim, types, twisting, tries, traps, through, thinking, things, tense, temptation