Comparison between Connie and Eveline
Comparison between Connie and Eveline Has someone ever made a comparison between you and another individual? The character Connie, from Joyce Carol Oates’ Where are you going, Where have you been?, shares comparisons to the character Eveline, from James Joyce’s short story Eveline. Both fictional females, Connie and Eveline, are having problems with their dysfunctional families and their involvement with a man. ... Connie is fifteen years old and undergoing the transformation from a girl to a young woman. On the inside, though, Connie still wants her family to think of her as their sweet innocent little girl. ... Connie’s newfound maturity causes her relationship with her mother to strain. Connie’s mother approves of June, Connie’s older sister, much more because she is plain and steady. Connie’s mother knows that she will not have to worry about June getting herself into trouble, but she is constantly nagging at Connie. Connie secretly feels like her mother should like her better than June because she is prettier, but “the two of them kept up a pretense of exasperation, a sense that they were tugging and struggling over something of little value to either of them” (Oates, J, in McMahon, etal p. ... It seems that Connie and her mother do not get along well as a result of Connie’s growing up.