Where are you going. Where have you been Characterization

Connie was indirectly and directly characterized. She was directly Characterized when Connie spoke of how "she knew she was pretty and that was everything." That directly states of her features as being pretty. What is not there but indirectly characterizes her personality is that Connie is shallow. This is so because of how Connie thinks the way one looks is everything. THe narrator also describes Connie as having two separate personalities. One was for home and one was for going out to meet guys. Although the narrator does not differentiate between the two telling which one is real one can infer that the personality used for the random guys she meets is fake. It is fake because her laugh changes to "high-pitched nervous laugh". This illustrates her lack of confidence and yet she feeds off of boy's attention. Although she never recalls the faces of the boy she dates or is intimate with she puts them altogether into a category where she is excited about the idea of being wanted.