The short story "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" by Joyce Carol Oates is about a teenage girl named Connie. She was the typical teenage girl growing up in the nineteen fifties in the United States of America. She was at the age of sexual recognition. Connie has to decide weather or not she wants to have sex and if she decides she wants to have sex she had to think about how …showed first 75 words of 757 total…

…showed last 75 words of 757 total…a bit and she was not afraid to leave the restaurant with him. This suggests that Connie was having thoughts of sex and wasn't sure if she wanted to act upon them so she put herself in a position where she would have to decide quickly weather or not it was right to give into her sexual desires. This is a way of putting off making an important decision until it has to be made.