Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?

Reading this, I got the feeling that Connie was a typical teenager that feels disconnected from her family. Making it seem like she is upsessed with her looks, I think she feels like that because of her position in her family. She feels like her mother loves June (connie's sister) more than her because of all the praise June gets."'Why don't you keep your room clean like your sister?'"(509). Connie could tell the different tones of voice her mom would use with both of them."'Stop gawking at yourself, who are you? You think your're so pretty'"509). Her mothers sisters even praise June. Connie can't seem to get her mothers attention and all her mothers seems to notice about Connie is how many times she looks in the mirror. She comes off as being upsessed with herself. Distant and rebellious are some of the characteristics are of Connie's actions throughout the story. To me Connie's mother hadn't shown her situations that she may encounter and how to deal with them.
Connie meets her friends at the shopping plaza and goes to the movies all the time it seems like. Having her friends father brining them there all the time, they would walk around the mall and stare and people that stare at them wispering. This makes me wonder when and where Arnold started watching Connie. Connie and her friends loved attention. With this confidence, Connie was well off in the boys department. Without commuication comes trouble.
When her family went to a bbq at a friends house and Connie just stayed behind, was when everything comes crashing down. A gold flashy car drivin by a swifty curious looking man and somone else in the front seat, both wearing sunglasses drove up to the house. At first I felt like Connie wasn't scared.When Arnoled talks the way he does with the softness and loudness like the music Connie listens to, thats one way he interests her. She didn't know what to think of the situaiton though. Right when he pulled up to her house is when he started playing Connie like a puppet. He mentioned some numers (33+19+17=69 and 6+9=15 which is Connie's age) is one way of looking at that, or like in class the bible was mention. The book of Judges which is 33rd book and 19:17 is the chapter and verse. "Where are you going and where do you come from?" it states. So with that the numbers mentioned could relate to the ages him being 33 and the others killed 19 and 17 and thoes added up would be Connie's age 15. That could go many different ways.
She knew that she didn't know him but with her loving the fantasy of music and it's messages of love she loved the mysterious ways he was pertraying. What raised a red flag was that he knew everything about her and her family, even what they were wearing on the way to the BBQ. So that tells me that he was watching her for a while, he couldn't have gotten that information in one day."'I never said my name was Connie'"(514). She threatened to call the cops, she knew that the situaion wasn't good but she didn't know what do to. She knew that she shouldn't go on a ride with him but she freaked out when he wouldn't stop sweet talking her. By the end of mind games, Arnold finaly gets Connie to come outside and finally accepts that she is a victum of a murderer.