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A 4 page paper which offers up a gender analysis of Joyce Carol Oates’ story Where Are You Going? Where Have You Been? Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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for no other reason, than because the story was written by a man or a woman and thus has elements that are gender related, even if the story has nothing
to do with gender. Some stories, however, are very obvious in their presentation of gender issues, concerns or conditions. One such story is Joyce Carol Oates short story Where Are
You Going? Where Have You Been? In this story the young girl/woman is at a stage in life where she wants to be a woman, but is not yet a
woman. She is observed by a man who knows full well that she is in this vulnerable position and he uses that vulnerability to his advantage. The following paper analyzes
the story as it involves gender concerns and indicates that the male character is really symbolic of society and how men will coerce and control women in many ways, using
the womans vulnerabilities against them. Gender Analysis of Where Are You Going? Where Have You Been? In the beginning of this story the reader can readily see that
Connie is in that fragile place between childhood and womanhood. She is very self absorbed and pays a lot of attention to how she looks, and who may want to
look at her, playing the woman although she is not a woman. "She was fifteen and she had a quick, nervous giggling habit of craning her neck to glance into
mirrors or checking other peoples faces to make sure her own was all right...she knew she was pretty and that was everything" (Oates). In this one sees that Connie was
clearly a victim of societys ideals. She felt that if she was pretty then the world was hers, nothing else mattered. The only important thing about being a woman was
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