Exploring Adolescent Sexuality and the Realities of Adulthood in Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?

Student’s Name Course Institutional Affiliation 16th April 2021 Element of Fiction (Character) The story “Where are you going? Where have you been?” by Joyce Carol Oates portrays a protagonist character, Connie, a fifteen year old girl who is at the peak of adolescent uproar. She constantly has disagreements with her sister June and mother, and disregards family unit to explore her sexuality, “… but around his bent head Connie’s mother kept picking at her until Connie wished her mother was dead and she herself was dead and it was all over” (Oates, 1). She attempts to come o