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The story "Where are you going? Where have you been?" by Joyce Carol Oates, is about a young girl who was going threw a point in her life where she felt that her mother did not understand her. She felt that she could do no right in her others eyes. To make matter ....

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.... more interested in the opposite sex and this is what she hid while she was at home. Connie was having a hard time at home with her family especially her with mother. Her mother was always comparing her to her older sister who could do no wrong. Her father was very seldom around. She felt that no one really understood her. The line "Connie wished her mother was dead and she herself was dead and it was all over," demonstrated her real feeling about her home life. Connie was spending her summer break with friends at the local shopping mall. One night Connie was and her friends had planed on watching a movie but a boy ask her if she wanted something ....