Man gothic elements are portrayed in this short story and most of them come from the Grandmother. The main one I believe is forshadowing. Death is forshadowed many times, and the most important, in my point of view, is where the car that the killers drive is viewed as "Hurse-like." The Grandmother of this story is very self-centered and doesn't truely show the good in her until a gun is pointed in her face.That in itself shaped the entire statement that O'conner was trying to make
Where Are Young Going, Where Have You Been
Connie sets herself up in this story, in my opinion. It is really disturbing that she is so helpless when Arnold Friend is threatening her. She has always been a flirt and is finnally came back to bite her in the butt when the worse case scenerio actually became reality. The power that Arnold has is unmatchable in this short story due to the fact that Connie is powerless with noone to come to her rescue. Overall I felt Oates did a great job of the creating the horror and terror in this film because there are very few feelings that are as horrific of the one that Connie must have undergone.
I know what you mean about the story being confusing. Trying to understand what was trying to be said was very hard and lost some of the meaning I think, because we keep having to go back and make sure we got the full meaning of what was said.
ReplyDeleteMost of the stories we read, all of them have the symbolic secret meaning under it. For this one, i have to think to reveal a good one. I do think Connie is a hybrid between a gothic heroine and femme fatale, but i am not sure if author meant that to represent anything.
ReplyDeleteBe careful of insinuating that young, flirty girls deserve to be molested.
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