Typical Girl

Connie is a typical teenage girl in the fifties because she wants to look pretty and she wants boys to be attracted to her. She is constantly checking her face in mirrors and in other people's eyes to make sure she looks good and there is nothing wrong with her. She thinks her long blonde hair is one of her more attractive features. Connie uses her hair to her advantage to attract boys her age and get their attention; one of the things she does with it is to let it fall on one shoulder and fidget with it as if trying to get their attention. Connie knows she is pretty but doesn't go over board with letting other people know she knows

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The second choice was to end up like her sister June. June still lived at home and was a secretary at Connie's high school. Arnold represented the fairy tale boy Connie had "trashy daydreams" (Oates 444) about. 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. The boy on top of the coke bottle was symbolic because he reminds us of Eddy, the boy she was with at the restaurant the night before. To Connie, growing up, she had two choices. Connie was growing up and it was hard to hide that fact. Connie was "boy crazy" and enjoyed the attention she got from them and she didn't see June getting any of that.

Connie wanted her family to think of her as a sweet innocent little girl, their little girl. She dressed differently when she was at home because to her, her house represented childhood and the outside world represented adulthood. Connie went to the drive-in restaurant that was shaped like a coke bottle with a boy as the coke bottle cap holding a hamburger in his hand. Connie would "[dress] one way when she was at home and another way when she was away from her home" (Oates 445). She wasn't sure what decision to make because what she wanted was the fairy tale, the romance written in songs and she didn't see that in her future with the footsteps of the women she was following.

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Approximate Word count = 760
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)

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