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    Joyce Carol Oates

    Biography

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    Joyce Carol Oates (b. 1938)

    American writer, poet, andessayist.

    Professor at PrincetonUniversity.

    As the author of more than50 novels and numerousnon-fiction works, isfamous for beingexceptionally prolific.

    Joyce Carol Oates talksabout her characters.

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    Her Life

    Joyce Carol Oates has often expressed an intense nostalgiafor the time and place of her childhood, and her working-class upbringing is lovingly recalled in much of her fiction.

    Yet she has also admitted that the rural, rough-and-tumblesurroundings of her early years involved "a daily scramble

    for existence.Grew up in the countryside outside of Lockport, New York,

    she attended a one-room schoolhouse in the elementarygrades.

    As a small child, she told stories instinctively by way of

    drawing and painting before learning how to write. Afterreceiving the gift of a typewriter at age fourteen, she beganconsciously training herself, "writing novel after novel"throughout high school and college.

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    Story Behind the Story Joyce Carol Oates was inspired to write "Where Are You Going, Where

    Have You Been?" after reading an account in Lifemagazine of a

    charismatic but insecure young man who had enticed and then killed

    several girls in Tucson, Arizona, during the early 1960s.

    Based on Bob Dylans song and dedicated to Bob Dylan. Its All OverNow Baby Blue (1965).

    This story was first published by the literary journal Epoch in 1966 and

    was included in Oates's 1970 short story collection The Wheel of Love.

    Oates herself republished it in 1974 as the title story for Where Are You

    Going, Where Have You Been?: Stories of Young America. This collection's subtitle points to Oates's ongoing interest in

    adolescence, especially the psychological and social turmoil that arises

    during this difficult period.

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    This story is known by many as one of Oates's best and in thewords of scholar G. F. Waller, it is "one of the masterpieces of thegenre.

    Oates's realism often garners such praise; critics and readersalike have commended the presentation of the story's centralcharacter, Connie, as a typical teenager who may be disliked,pitied, or even identified with.

    A similar believability is instilled in Arnold Friend's manipulativestream of conversation and its psychological effects on avulnerable teenager.

    Critics also praise the story for its evocative language, its use ofsymbols, and an ambiguous conclusion which allows for severalinterpretations of the story's meaning.

    In 1988, a film version of the story was released entitled SmoothTalk.

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    Smooth Talk

    Grand Jury Prize, Sundance Film Festival,

    1986 Released:1985Running time:92 minutes

    Director:Joyce Chopra

    Production Company: Goldcrest Films;

    American Playhouse; NepentheProductionsProducer: Martin RosenExecutive Producer:Lindsay LawAssociate Producer:Timothy Marx

    Screenplay:Tom Cole

    Director of Photography:JamesGlennonEditor:Patrick DoddMusic Director:James TaylorOriginal Music:Bill Payne, Russ Kunkel,George MassenburgCasting:Mary ColquhounProduction Design:David WascoCostume Design:Carol Oditz

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    SUMMARY

    &

    PLOT

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    EXPOSITION

    -Connie's home life, her family, her relationship with

    her parents and how they view her as opposed to her

    sister June.

    RISING ACTION

    -Connie's realization that she is pretty and enjoys attracting

    boys and flirting. Connie's actions of sneaking away with

    Eddie, a boy she took off with when she was supposed to be

    with her girlfriends makes her feel very smug and successful at

    being able to fool her parents.Although her mother is suspicious of what Connie is doing, she

    does nothing about it. She just complains about her daughter's

    behavior

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    CLIMAX

    -the two men come to Connie's house. She is alone, her family has gone to a

    barbecue.When Arnold Friend and Ellie arrive at her house, she is initially excited

    about the possibility that she was being sought out. She even thinks that

    she remembers one of the boys.

    THE FALLING ACTION-Connie struggles psychologically with the two men, not boys, and realizes

    that they have come to harm her. She is helpless and alone. She

    is manipulated by Arnold Friend, he convinces her that she must go along

    with them, or her whole family will be harmed.

    RESOLUTION

    -Connie submits to Arnold Friend and leaves the house to join him in his

    car.

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    WHERE ARE YOU GOING

    WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN?

    Prepares us for a

    journeyPhysical journey:

    Connie heading down to

    Big Boy. Family going out for

    barbeque.

    Connie being compelled

    to leave with Arnold

    Mental and emotional

    journey

    Connies struggle with

    Arnold

    History

    Connies relationship

    with her family

    Connies self perceptionWhere is she going?

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    Connie- the one who is

    being conned

    SYMBOLISM

    Arnold Friend- An old

    fiendJune- as constant as the

    month of June each year

    The X

    Marking Connie as his next conquest/

    property

    Intending to harm/kill her, crossing her

    out

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    ALTERNATE INTERPRETATIONS

    ARNOLD FRIEND IS SATAN HIMSELF!

    shaggy, shabby black hair that looked crazy as a

    wig He was standing in a strange way leaning back

    against the car as if he were balancing himself.

    she saw how pale the skin around his eyes was, like

    holes that were not in shadow but instead in light. His

    eyes were like chips of broken glass that catch the lightin an amiable way.

    He stood there so stiffly relaxed, pretending to be

    relaxed, with one hand idly on the door handle as if he

    were keeping himself up

    I aintmade plans for coming in that house where Idont belong but just for you to come out to me

    I know everybody.

    Right now theyre-uh-theyre drinking. Sitting around,

    he said vaguely, squinting as if he were staring all the

    way to town and over to aunt Tillies back yard.

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    Boots stuffed to hold the hooves in.

    Wig to cover the horns.

    Face looks older upon closer inspection.

    Seems to know what the family was doing precisely at the

    moment.

    Knew Connies and her friends name.

    Couldnt enter the house instead lures her out.

    X is a tilted cross.

    33 19 17, The Old Testament of the Bible counted from

    backwards, 33rdbook from the end is Judges. Chapter 19

    verse 17:

    And when he had lifted up his eyes, he saw a wayfaring man in

    the street of the city: and the old man said, "Whither goest

    thou? and whence comest thou?"

    The Devil is the

    oldest fiend!