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“Goodman Brown versus Connie” In Joyce Carol Oates’s “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been,” Connie, a fifteen-year-old female, decides to stay home one Sunday while her parents and her older sister attends a family barbecue. While Connie is listening to the radio, a gold jalopy pulls up in her yard with two people, a boy Connie has recognized once before, whose name is Arnold Friend, and his friend Ellie. Ellie listens to a transistor radio throughout the conversation between Arnold and Connie. Arnold invites Connie for a ride with him, but she shows no interest, unsure whether she wants to ride with these strangers. As there conversations continue, Connie begins to see that Arnold is not what he appears to be: his hair, face, clothes, and talks are all a cover up. As her fear grows, Arnold becomes more and more aggressive that she rides with him. Arnold slowly reveals his power over her as she finds herself tempted at the end. In Hawthorne’s “Young Goodman Brown, “ Brown leaves his wife one evening to meet a stranger in the forest, supposedly to go with him to a witch meeting. During their conversation, the stranger convinces Brown to walk through the forest through demonstrations that people Bro