Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? Characters

Persephone. Antigone. Ophelia. Catherine Earnshaw. In the list of great tragic heroines, Connie doesn't really seem to fit. She's the girl next door: ordinary, even bratty. She's the "pretty" one...

Signs that a guy might be trouble:1. The first words out of his mouth are "Gonna get you, baby."2. He stuffs his boots so that he looks taller, even though it makes him walk like a drunken pirate.3...

Connie and her mother do not get along. In a familiar pattern for many mother-daughter relationships, Connie's mother never seems to speak kindly to or of Connie, and Connie doesn't think too highl...

June is Connie's boring older sister. Connie's mother is always comparing the two, with Connie inevitably ending up short. June offers up another model of womanhood: if her mother is the model of d...

Betty is just "Connie's best friend" for much of the story; we only find out her name from Arnold, who is trying to build his credibility with Connie by naming her friends. All we know about Betty...

As Arnold's companion, Ellie spends most of his time in the car listening to a transistor radio. His great dramatic moment is when he offers to pull Connie's telephone cord out, at which point Arno...