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162 reviews for:
Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?: Selected Early Stories
Joyce Carol Oates
4.04 AVERAGE
162 reviews for:
Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?: Selected Early Stories
Joyce Carol Oates
4.04 AVERAGE
fast-paced
So far this has been the best short horror audiobook I have heard today. It is so realistic even in today's society, the fear of men having power over women, making women fear for there lives sometimes. The tension that the author created between Connie and the men who are gaslighting and threating her is completely horrific.
dark
fast-paced
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
"We'll go out to a nice field, out in the country here where it smells so nice and it's sunny," Arnold Friend said. "I'll have my arms tight around you so you won't need to try to get away and I'll show you what love is like, what it does. The hell with this house! It looks solid all right," he said. He ran a fingernail down the screen and the noise did not make Connie shiver, as it would have the day before. "Now, put your hand on your heart, honey. Feel that? That feels solid too but we know better. Be nice to me, be sweet like you can because what else is there for a girl like you but to be sweet and pretty and give in?— and get away before her people come back?"
She felt her pounding heart. Her hand seemed to enclose it. She thought for the first time in her life that it was nothing that was hers, that belonged to her, but just a pounding, living thing inside this body that wasn't really hers either.
read this for my comp class, and i've never been so happy to do my homework before. hypnotic and disturbing, where are you going is right up my alley. should be compulsory reading, tbh. bad idea to read it at three in the morning, though. looked to see if my door was locked and instantly thought, "but why lock it? it's just nothing." five stars.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment
Minor: Fatphobia
This story is disturbing, but an excellent text to use in a high school or college level English course, or simply for anyone looking for a well-crafted short story to read. The story functions so well because it takes the ordinary life of a young girl who is oblivious to the dangers of reality and flips that reality on both the girl and the reader. This story gives me chills every time I finish it and astonishes me with emotion: two reactions I credit to fantastic writing.
tense
mysterious