She realized that the “trashy day dreams” were just what her sister June thought they were, erotic and not filled with love at all. “Oates employs psychological realism within the framework of experimentation” (Miller, P) where Connie realizes that her love and sexual life was not what she thought. She was about to experience what sexuality was in the harsh world and she recognized it when Friend says, “I’m always nice at first, the first time… and I’ll come inside you where it’s all secret and you’ll give in” (Lit 329) “she put her hands against her ears as if she’d heard something terrible, something not meant for her,” if she was really the “experienced woman” she thought she was, why would that have terrified her? She was not ready to be that sexual woman but she was being forced to be it in these terrible
She realized that the “trashy day dreams” were just what her sister June thought they were, erotic and not filled with love at all. “Oates employs psychological realism within the framework of experimentation” (Miller, P) where Connie realizes that her love and sexual life was not what she thought. She was about to experience what sexuality was in the harsh world and she recognized it when Friend says, “I’m always nice at first, the first time… and I’ll come inside you where it’s all secret and you’ll give in” (Lit 329) “she put her hands against her ears as if she’d heard something terrible, something not meant for her,” if she was really the “experienced woman” she thought she was, why would that have terrified her? She was not ready to be that sexual woman but she was being forced to be it in these terrible