Why Arnold was the devil
Reasons for Arnold Friend being the Devil In "Where are you going, Where have you been?" the devil is masquerading as Arnold Friend, or that he is at least one of the devil's messengers. All the evidence during the corse of the story helps to support this fact. One could see with all of the supernatural things that Friend did, such as predict where and where Connie's entire family was and what they were doing, proved that he was at least one of the Devil's evil little pranksters: "He ain't coming. He's at a barbecue Aunt Tillie's. Right now they're-uh-they're drinking Yeah. Sitting around. There is your sister in the blue dress, huh? And high heels, the poor sad bitch-nothing like you, sweetheart! And your mother's helping sone fat woman with the corn, they're cleaning the husking corn" (Oates 452). By Friend predicting what and where Connie's family was doing should further support the fact that he is the Devil. Another reason that Friend might be the devil would be the fact that he has a minion, which happens to be Ellie. But the most obvious thing that one could have noticed was Friend's rough appearance. Arnold Friend's appearance was that of a person in a Hallo
Friend told Connie that she was his and that he could show her what real love was like: "I'll have my arms tight around you so you won't need to try and get away and I'll show you what real love is like, what it does" (455). His hair could have been real in comparison to Friend who had hair that looked like a wig. By Connie not picking up the phone showed how afraid of Friend she was. Connie was so scared of Friend that almost anything that he told her she would believe: "Soon as you touch the phone I don't need to keep my promise and can come inside. The collar on his shirt was pointed so that it looked as if it were protecting his body from the sun. The fact that Ellie could be considered one of Friend's minion is because he was trying to do a task to impress his boss "Want the phone pulled out?" (454). Friend again fooled Connie into thinking that her house was not as safe as she though is was, that doors and things were easy to avoid "I mean, anyone can break through a screen door and glass and wood and iron or anything else if he needs to, anybody at all, and especially Arnold Friend" (453). Ellie had a small piece of hair that fell upon his forehead, and the sideburns that he had exclaimed Elvis look alike. Besides Friend's appearance, there was his evil intent in manipulating Connie so that her could rape her and kill her. In seeing that Ellie was Friend's underling one could get the feeling that Frined was in actually the Devil. It even got to the point where Connie could not even recognize her own kitchen. This is why Connie goes to the drive-in restaurant where the older kids hung out. Another fact that could help support that Friend is the devil is his rhythmic speech "Listen: Betty Schultz and Tony Fitch and Jimmy Pettinger and Nancy Pettinger,' he said in a chant. 'Raymond Stanley and Bob Hunter"(450).
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