Where are you Going? Where Have You Been by Joyce Carol Oates

Joyce Carol Oates was inspired to write "Where are you, where have you been?" After reading the account in the life of the journal charismatic but insecure young man who enticed and then killed several girls in Tucson, Arizona, in early 1960. Convert into a fiction, this story was first published in a literary magazine era in 1966 and was incorporated in 1970, Oates's short story collection "The Wheel of Love. Critical recognition was so quick, and I am sure that in 1972, critic Walter Sullivan noted that he was one of its most widely reprinted stories and fairly.

Along with frequent appearance of the story in textbooks and anthologies, Oates herself she published in 1974 as the name for the history of where you are, where have you been?: Stories of Young America. The subtitle of this collection indicates a continuing interest Oates in adolescence, especially the psychological and social turmoil that occurs during this difficult period. Her concern with these topics, together with her acute sense of the special requirements of young people face in modern society, it is obvious, where are you, where were you? "(Oates, 1)

In her search for meaning in life, Connie enough for what is available toher teenage subculture of retail space, hamburger joints, the screenplay, and rocklyrics. The narrator remarks of the family that none of them do not bother with the Church, but Connie sevening in the shopping center is described in terms of popular religion. The Drive-In Restaurant sacredbuilding. Rock 'n' roll, like music on the vice-Ser Church. No adults worship in this altarand, indeed, my father drives girls never bothered to ask what they did. Thatit will not matter. When the issue since June threatens to reveal Connie with real life, ...