WHERE ARE YOU GOING, WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN

Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been

Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been by Joyce Carol Oates

Introduction

After reading “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" by Joyce Carol Oates's, many levels of possible significance revealed, which creates it an excellent example of fictional indecisiveness and literary ambiguity. One can read Oates's story as a criminal offense story: a fictionalized consideration of a traditional personality (Charles Schmid, the Pied Piper of Tucson), or as ethical parable: a cautionary story for area, or as a public papers of the 1960's, in ...