Oates' "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?": Arnold Fiend
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Oates' "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?": Arnold Fiend
In Joyce Carol Oates' “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?”
critics argue whether the character of Arnold Friend, clearly the story's
antagonist, represents Satan in the story. Indeed, Arnold Friend is an
allegorical devil f ....
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.... on the story, the
authors write about Arnold Friend: “There are indeed diabolical shades to
Arnold just as Blake and Shelley could see Milton's Satan a positive,
attractive symbol of the poet, the religious embodiment of creative energy,
so we should also be sensitive to Arnold's multifaceted and creative nature”
(Tierce and Crafton 608). Mike Tierce and John Michael Crafton suggest
that Arnold Friend is not a diabolical figure, but instead a religious and
cultural savior.
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