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and relationship is the main target of a clever malicious stalker, a man who intends to kidnap, rape and murder her. “She (Connie) is caught between her roles as a daughter, friend, sister, and object of sexual desire uncertain of which one represents the real her.” (Short Stories For Students 259) Creighton writes “Oates captures so well the viciousness, cheapness and narcissism of life for Connie and her friends who have nothing better to do than to stroll up and down a shopping center plaza looking for excitement.” Connie is blind to the real world which surrounds her and ironically enough, it leads to her death. She opens up herself too much to life and believes nothing will ever hurt her. The music and movies she enjoys are her ideals of how her life will be for her in the future.
Connie is first aware of Arnold Friend when she is out on a date and she noticed a “a boy with black hair and a gold ‘jalopy’-a beat up sports car- ...

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of Arnold Friend’s name involves removing some of the letters in order to see the “secret meaning” behind the name:
ARNOLD FRIEND
Now, minus the “R” in Arnold and the “R” in Friend he takes on a new, possibly truer identity:
AN OLD FIEND.”
Arnold Friend interpretation of the Devil or evil is quite vast. So much has been written on even the slightest of similarities its impossible to find every meaning behind him and his actions. “In the parking lot Friend signs Connie with an “X”. Friend always had a habit of wagging his finger as if to remind her he was in control.” (Collins)
The fact that Arnold ...

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