The Minor Portion of "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been" The story "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been", by Joyce Carol Oates, has been discussed by many critics who try to interpret the story the way the author intended. In Larry Rubin's article, "Oates's 'Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been'," he states that the story is "Connie's scary encounter with Arnold as a dream-vision or "daymare" - one in …
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…Mandell. 4thed. Fort Worth: Harcourt, 2001. 626-29. - - -. "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" A Manual/Casebook for Freshman English: "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" Ed. English Department, Salisbury State University. Salisbury, MD: SSU, 2000. 27-37. Quirk, Tom. "A Source for 'Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?'" Studies in Short Fiction, 18 (Fall 1981): 415. Rubin, Larry. "'Oates's Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?'" Explicator, 42.4 (Summer 1984): 58-9.