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Oates' "where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?": Arnold Fiend

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She lets the reader know that Arnold is not a teenager when Connie begins to notice the features such as the painted eyelashes, his shaggy hair which looked like a wig, and his stuffed boots; these features led her to believe he was not a teenager, but in fact, much older. Oates does make Arnold out to be a psychopathic stalker, but never objectively states the diabolical nature to his character...
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Oates does make Arnold out to be a psychopathic stalker, but never objectively states the diabolical nature to his character. In "Connie's Tambourine Man", a critical essay on the story, the authors write about Arnold Friend: "There are indeed diabolical shades to Arnold just as Blake and Shelley could see Milton's Satan a positive, attractive symbol of the poet, the religious embodiment of creative energy, so we should also be sensitive to Arnold's multifaceted and creative nature"(Tierce and Crafton 608)...
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