akes me want to throw up sometimes" (Oates 3). Connie feels this way due to the treatment she receives from her mother. She is constantly taunted by her mother to be more like her older sister June. Twenty-four year old June was what Connie's mother considered perfect. She wanted Connie to follow in her sisters foot steps for fear that she would grow up and become a pregnant teenager like she herself did at that age. It is completely understandable, why Connie is so eager to feel some love and attention, from someone that cares for her. Something she had never felt before from her father or
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