Where are you going, where have you been.

I found this story to be quite layered, with many different appealing aspects. One aspect to look at is the fact that this could be a warning to young girls who are learning about their own sexual possesions and how men respond to these, showing them that flirting and acting sexually an attract a negative reaction. In the story Arnold will not go into the house but demands for connie to come out to him this part story demonstrates how young girls fall to the head games and hasty persuasion that males tend to have. Young girls can be easily controlled because their adolescent minds and not quite logical as most adult women would be, not always reconizing danger. I also like the real life connection of this story. The connection to Charles joseph schmid who in the same me period of this story, lured unkowing females in to his rad car and killed possibly raped in abandened fields. Smitty as he was refered to by the youth locals at the time was convicted of three muders including two sisters. Another aspect is the biblical notion it tends to preach. Showing how the evils of vanity and greed can distort the soul that is why arnold becomes more and more uglier to connie as the conversation progresses, giving connie a glimpse of what she might become if she continues to selfish and vain. Once again i also think this story shows light on how as we become adults and face new challenges we tend to do things we would never do like connie going with arnold after he threatens her family showing that in the worst possible situation she starts to grow up and relize the sacrifices adults have to make. Maybe thats why her mothers looks went down hill because she now had a family to look after disregarding her own up keep