Hawthorne's Young Goodman Brown versus Oates' Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been

The devices that Arnold Friend uses to tempt Connie also suggest that he is the Devil. As the Devil beguiled Eve with a shiny and mysterious apple in Milton?s Paradise Lost, so does Arnold Friend beguile Connie with his shiny and mysterious car. Connie finds the car attractive not only for its dazzling golden paint job but also for the epigrams that Arnold Friend has written on its various parts. Some are humorous, such as the line that appears above a dent in the rear fender: ?Done by crazy woman driver.? Others are more appealing

When Connie first opens her front door to the familiar stranger it seems innocent; a man pursuing his crush. After a few minutes of chatting Connie realizes that the stranger, named Arnold Friend, is much older than her. Arnold use the fact that she is young to manipulate her, and he “insinuates himself into her thinking, attempting to persuade her that he's her "lover.”. He is trying to be

When Connie first hears a car pulling up in her driveway, her attention is immediately directed to her hair and looks. She isn’t concerned as much about who is outside or what they want, but how see will look to them. When she initially sees Arnold she is attracted to his style and car. He is muscular in tight faded jeans and a drives a bright gold jalopy. His image is everything that Connie has fantasized about and can relate to. Arnold is even playing

Her knowledge of her beauty allows her to draw attention to it from many guys of many ages. She loves the attention that she gets from these boys, and that often seduces her into the decisions that she makes. Her first encounter with Arnold Friend occurs when she is in the car with one of the boys she met, Eddie. She glances to her right and sees Arnold, in his car, staring at her. Arnold spoke with his lips to tell her “Gonna get you, baby”, and perhaps it is this threat that causes Connie to symbolize him as a jeopardy to her innocence that the reader sees in her nightmare (Oates 28).

In this story we have a third person narrative. Sometimes we also get to know the thoughts and reflection Lois has of the events in the wilderness.

Though Nathaniel Hawthorne is an author of many great works, his short story “Young Goodman Brown” still stays relevant because it has themes and subjects that are relatable in today 's world. In the story “Young Goodman Brown,” Goodman Brown leaves his wife Faith, to go into the woods near Salem to have a meeting with the devil. Appearance vs. reality is shown in “Young Goodman Brown” through the plot, the character of Goody Cloyse, and the symbol of the maple staff.

Connie hangs out with her friends at the mall, but sometimes they sneak off to a restaurant where the older kids are. “Sometimes they did go shopping or to a movie, but sometimes they went across the highway, ducking fast across the busy road, to a drive-in restaurant where older kids hung out”(324). One time when they go to this restaurant she see’s a man who grabs her attention. “He stared at her and then his lips widened into a grin.”(325) She couldn’t help but glance back to see if he was watching and he was. “He wagged a finger and laughed and said, “Gonna get you baby,”(325). This part of the story is what foreshadows the ending where she has make a decision that means sacrificing herself to

During one of Connie’s sneaky “dates” with a boy at the restaurant across the street from the mall, she encounters a curious young man staring at her from the seat of his golden car. One Sunday, Connie declines an invitation to go to a barbeque with the family when, unexpectedly, the same young man suspiciously shows up to her house in his golden car with a friend and music. This young man reveals himself to be Arnold Friend (a suspicious name) who represents the perfect temptation for a cute girl. Connie is vulnerable to the will of her hormones and curiosity as she is only fifteen years old. Life always introduces itself as a friend, but in reality it just wants to use people

As Connie mechanically “put her hand against the screen and…watched herself push the door slowly open as if she were back safe somewhere in the other doorway”, she is seeing herself and “the vast sunlit reaches of the land behind him and on all sides of him-so much land that Connie had never seen before” (171). In this closing scene, the reader sees how Connie’s dynamic character changes her way of thinking and her selfish, shallow personality. She becomes self-aware of her life and all that surrounds her because of this traumatic experience with Arnold

When it comes to the topic of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Young Goodman Brown, most of us will readily agree that duplicity is a major theme in the piece, or the idea of different versions of reality. Where this agreement usually ends, however, is on the question of whether Hawthorne is implying that man is inherently evil. Whereas some are convinced that Young Goodman Brown was good until tainted by the Devil, others maintain that he was evil from the beginning and was completely aware of the evil he was indulging in. My personal view, however, is that Young Goodman Brown was inherently evil, but it did not come to light until the Devil began to influence Brown. This can be seen through the use of symbolism, biblical allusions, and the development of the main characters. While the Devil may have revealed that Young Goodman Brown was not as innocent and pious as he appeared, Brown was willingly indulging in sin and was inherently evil.

Arnolds odd physical appearance and his questionable actions makes the reader lead to believe he has something to hide. He speaks to her very forcefully purposefully using compliments leading his victim Connie to committing a sin of vanity. Connie responds to compliments and likes the attention that Arnold is giving her, falling into his prey and digging into temptation. Speaking to Connie, Arnold says, “But I know what is. I know your name and all about you, lots of things” (4). This illustrating the devil figure because he has traced all of Connie's actions along with her families. Knowing everything about her and her every move but still wanting to disguise himself, mirroring a devil figure, hiding his true self. Arnold appealing to Connie because she is finally getting the attention from a male figure she's been missing. While calling her “baby” and “honey,” their conversation progressing quickly, “...we’ll drive away, have a nice ride...if you don't come...they’re all going to get it” (8). Arnold being forceful, giving her two choices but in the end having the same outcome. Arnold reflecting a devil, he is being evil and cruel, “It’s all over for you here, so come on out”(8). Arnold reminding her that she was left at home by herself with nothing to do, forcing her out. This foreshadowing the rape and murder of an oblivious young teenage girl. Being lonely and

The author used Connie’s beauty to represent purity, vulnerability and immorality, as imagery. She made them the things Arnold friend prayed on. Connie altered her appearance and behavior so she could attract the attention she wanted from older guys, according to the text “Everything about her had two sides to it one for home and one for anywhere that was not home.” Connie seeked attention but only attention from guys she wanted. Unlike when connie and her friend were walking to the burger place and guy they knew from school invited them over but she ignored him.

Connie’s first encounter with Arnold is when she spots his car “a convertible jalopy painted gold.” The notion in which Connie perceives the strange car subtly hints to the fact that she finds it peculiar, but nevertheless, dismisses it. Her dismissal easily allows the reader

Thus, when Arnold appears, she is attracted because Arnold fits all her imagination about romance, which is fed by popular music and movies. Connie not only cares about looks and love, but also demonstrates adolescent rebellion by being a different person between at home and outside. “Everything about her had two sides to it, one for home and one for anywhere that was not home” (Oates 652). She is a child at home, but a young woman with a budding sexuality while outside. This is typical way of rebellion when people are in their teenager years.

Winslow. “For Arnold proposes to become her lover and to initiate her fully into sexuality.” (Winslow) Connie does not respond willingly to Arnold’s proposal, she calls him crazy and regresses into her house and covers her ears in an attempt to block something she was not meant or ready to hear. “Her feelings cause her to associate Arnold with danger, nightmare, and death... Connie is moving tentatively toward an experience she...will be unable to handle emotionally.”