1. Pick at least 3 traits in Connie's character and support each with details, incidents, and dialog from the story. I would like you to read the lines from the story and analyze what the author means.
I can give you a general statement with a few traits. Connie, the story’s young protagonist, navigates adolescence by adopting two personas: one for her home life and another, more sexualized and polished, for her public life. Her life is defined by her relationship to boys or men; romance fills her thoughts and her reunions with other girls are simply a pretext for approaching boys. Reflecting the sexualized culture she finds herself in, Connie prizes beauty above all. Her main interaction with the wider culture occurs through music, which constitutes a sort of secular religion for her. Despite her experiments with adulthood and sexuality, Connie is still very much a child: when faced with imminent harm, she cries out for her mother. Her fragile identity, already split into two personas, completely fractures when Arnold Friend threatens her.
