Where Are You Going. Where Have you Been? Plot

During the course of this story the pace of the work is slower. It is slower in that it identifies and describes the personality of Connie and her older sister. The author does this to show the difference and how Connie is the "rebel". Also the structure of this work is divided into Connie's thoughts about her home life and the many experiences with boys the author writes of her having. But we the reader only hear of one in particular in which helps us see the creepy man at the end not so surprising. At the time the incident with the shaggy, black haired man in the convertible seemed insignificant until the end. The way the plot comes to the end surprises the reader in a way because of what seemed like an insignificant character became the ultimate enemy of Connie. The experiences in which she has with her family and her thoughts of boys helps us see her personality and therefore relate to her. The ending of the plot causes us also to see the mind of a girl going crazy because of a surprise altercation with one boy she never wanted to be with.