This story was complicated to me....I thought it started out fine, I could picture and imagine Connie in my head as I read the story. She seemed like a normal 15 year old girl worried more about her hair and apperance than picking up her room. And although she may have wanted to seem "grown up" her confrontation with Eddie in the alley makes me believe she is fearful.
The story made me want to believe that she got raped by Arnold but as I read it again I wasnt so sure. Oates never states he actually rapes her but by the lines of him stabbing her with again and again with no tenderness, whatever the act is its brutal.
In the end you get the feeling that whatever carefree attitude Connie had as a young teenager is taken away by Arnold...
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