Instruction
Please read "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" by Joyce Carol through this link: https://www.cusd200.org/cms/lib/IL01001538/Centricity/Domain/361/oates_going.pdf
Please read the attached file of a Wall Street Journal Article on that talks about this story. Also I provided a post of one of my class mates on the second attached file for your reference.
answer the following in your post:
In her critical overview of "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" scholar Rena Korb (Author of the Wall Street Journal Article) discusses several different interpretative views of the story. One interpretation reads the story as a sort of "inverted fairy tale." Other critics see the story as "a tale of initiation" into the evils of a depraved American culture. Still others may read the story as a "feminist allegory." Ideas in these interpretations often overlap, and there is no one simplistic key to understand the story. With reference to the article by Korb, discuss your own understanding of the story, which may include ideas not mentioned by the critic.