Thursday, April 17, 2014

Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?

I just read "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" by Joyce Carol Oates that was dedicated to Bob Dylan because she was inspired to write the short story after hearing his song "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue". The story is about a mischievous teenager named Connie who sneaks around with her friends and ends up getting herself into trouble. She is at home alone one day when a guy that saw her one night when she was out shows up in his car. His name is Arnold Friend and he insists that she gets in and they "take a ride". Connie gets scared and backs into her house and tries to call the cops but he stops her. At the end she gets in with him because he threatens to hurt her family. It is unknown where they go, or if she returns safely. I looked up "rapey songs" and "creepy songs about teenage girls" and what I found was mostly country songs about having sex in a chevy or blurred lines by robin thicke. I definitely imagined this guy to be like that, in a creepy pedophile-like way.

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