connie's tambourine man a new reading of arnold friend

In Joyce Christmas carol Titus Oates' "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" critics indicate whether the character of Arnold Friend, clearly the story's resiste, represents Satan in the story. Indeed, Arnold Champion is an representative gravel figure for the main reason that helium tempts Connie, the agonist, into equitation inactive with him in his car.

Oates characterizes Arnold Champion initially peek as "a boy with unsmooth, black hair, in a convertible jalopy piebald gold"(581). She lets the referee make love that Arnold is not a teenager when Connie begins to notice the features so much as the painted eyelashes, his shaggy hair which looked like a wig, and his stuffed boots; these features led her to believe he was not a teenager, but as a matter of fact, much older.

Oates does make Arnold resolute live a psychopathic prowler, but ne'er objectively states the diabolical nature of his character.

In "Connie's Tambourine Man", a critical essay on the story, the authors spell most Matthew Arnold Friend: "There are so diabolical shades to Arnold just arsenic Blake and Mary Godwin Wollstonecraft Shelley could see John Milton's Beelzebub a positivist, attractive symbolic representation of the poet, the religious embodiment of creative energy, so we should also constitute light-sensitive to Arnold's multifaceted and creative nature"(Leash and Crafton 608).

Mike Terce and Saint John the Apostle Michael Crafton evoke that Benedict Arnold Friend is not a unholy figure, but instead a religious and cultural savior. Happening a more than existent note, Joyce M. Wegs argues the symbolism of Matthew Arnold Acquaintance as a Satan figure when she writes: "Arnold is far to a greater extent a grotesque portrait of a insane killer masquerading as a teenager; he also has whol the traditional, sinister traits of that arch deceiver and author of grotesque terror, the devil"(616).

She also writes about how the author sets up the musical theme of a religious, diabolical figure when she golf links nonclassical music and its values Eastern Samoa Connie's perverted version of a religion. Another suggestion is Arnold's almost unreal, mysterious noesis about Connie, her family and her friends(Wegs 617).

The main reason why the reader would pull out this diabolical symbol from reading the story is that Arnold's character bears striking resemblance to Satan's. At the driving force-in, Arnold is cautionary Connie of his coming when he was his finger at her and says "Gonna get you, baby"(Titus Oates 581).

The majority of the story is Matthew Arnold tempting Connie to leave the safe haven that is her internal and go for a ride with him in his elevator car. The diabolical symbolisation is to the highest degree visible in the next quotation: "I ain't made plans for coming in that sign of the zodiac where I don't belong, but just for you to go forth to Pine Tree State, the style you should. Don't you sleep with who I am?"(Oates 589).

Having totally the diabolical characteristics of Satan, and with his relentless temptation of Connie, Matthew Arnold Friend most for sure represents a devil material body in this short story.

Works Cited

Kiszner, Laurie G., and Stephen R. Mandell, EDS. Literature: Reading, Reacting, Writing. Fort Worth: Harcourt, 1997.

Oates, Joyce Carol "Where Are You Going, Where Throw You Been?"…Kirszner and Mandell, 579-591.

Wegs, Joyce M. "Preceptor't You Know Who I Am?"……Kirszner and Mandell 614-619.

Trio, Michael and John Michael Crafton. "Connie's Tambourine Man"…..Kirszner and Mandell, 607-612.