Character Analysis in Joyce Oates "Where are you going, where have you been?" <Tab/>In life there are so many different paths to take, which take us to many different ends. It is one's character that determines the destination and the forgoing of one's inevitability. However, in life there are so many distractions or forces that try to mislead us and eventually take hold of us. It is our weaknesses that …showed first 75 words of 2632 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2632 total…You Been?" For Connie, that moment came the day Arnold Friend violated her world. A closer inspection of our own lives would perhaps show us the moment we ourselves stood between the illusions of our youth and the indefinite future. Bibliography Walker, Alice. An Introduction to Fiction. Eds. X. J. Kennedy, and Dana Gioia. 9th ed. New York: Longman, 2005. Wagner-Martin, Linda. : Reference Guide to Short Fiction, 1st ed., edited by Noelle Watson, St. James Press, 1994