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One Of The Devil’s Favorite Sin: Vanity

One Of The Devil’s Favorite Sin: Vanity

In “Where are You Going, Where Have You Been?” Joyce Carol Oates uses symbols of evil to illustrate the theme of temptation. Oates refers casually to hell through the character Arnold Friend, as the devil, and his victim Connie, who invites him in by committing one of the devil’s favorites sins: vanity. 
The narrator implies that Arnold Friend is Satan by giving certain clues that the reader can conclude. The name that Oates gives to the character is one hint to the reader: “Connie looked away from Friend's smile to the car, which was painted so bright it almost hurt her eyes to look at it. She looked at the name, Arnold Friend. She looked at it for a while as if the words meant something to her that she did not yet know” (450). Arnold Friend's appearance also hints that he is Satan: “There were two boys in the car and now she recognizes the driver: he had shaggy, shabby black hair that looked as a crazy wig”(448). The narrator emphasizes the “wig” to make the reader think that he is wearing it for a purpose, which is hide his devil’s horns. Also, the fact that Arnold Friend's eyes

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