Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been

In the short story, “No One Is a Mystery” the narrator knelt down to look at her pants after being on the car floor. She describes the dust on her jeans to a butterfly. This description gives the reader an image of a butterfly printed on her jeans made out of dust. The narrator describes it that way because the dust shape on her jeans reminds her of a butterfly. This also, tells us how unclean the car of the floor; so dusty that it took form on her jeans. This description is a metaphor describing the dust of her jeans to a butterfly. In “Where Are you Going, Where Have You Been”, the author explains the way Arnold was naming the kids that he know to Connie. “Listen: Betty Schultz and Tony Fitch and Jimmy Pettinger and Nancy Pettinger,” he said in a chant…” (CP 14). The author summarized the dialogue to indicate that Arnold chanting the names of the kids to show how confident he was. A chant indicates that he was confidently singing out the names of the kids on the block. Letting the reader know how he was saying the kids name to Connie. This also us the type of guy Arnold is, the outspoken cocky type guy. Arnold could have been a guy who is shy but this summarizing dialogue …show more content…
We can conclude without knowing that she started that she was eighteen in the beginning of the story that she was a child. The author uses speech to convey this when her boyfriend tells her that she sound like a child. For asking him why his car was so dirty. Another speech from the girl’s boyfriend "This is my birthday present from him. I can’t imagine anybody more than I love jack” (CH 41). This indicates how hopeless romantic the main character in the story is. She doesn’t see herself loving anyone else because her boyfriend gave her a diary to write about him. This also shows contracting traits that she loves and wants to be with jack which is her