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We learned that there were two prominent sources of inspiration for "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" by Joyce Carol Oates. One is the real-life "Pied Piper of Tucson" murders that occurred in the 1960s, and the other is Bob Dylan's song "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue."

In your posting this week, please answer both of the following questions:

1. It's fairly obvious to see how the real-life murderer Charles Schmid (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. inspired the character of Arnold Friend in this story, but it's less obvious how the song "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue" served as a primary source of inspiration. Oates considered it such an inspiration that she dedicated the story to Bob Dylan. Reading over the lyrics (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site., how do you see it as connected with the story "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" Please discuss at least one specific example from the lyrics; you may discuss more than one if you'd like.

2. When reading fiction in ENG 102, we haven't spent much time talking about the inspiration for the stories we've read. How have your thoughts on this story changed from reading it without knowing about the specific sources of inspiration, versus reflecting on the story after reading this week's lecture notes where the inspiration is discussed? Do you think stories should be read on their own without considering what inspired the author, or is it important to sometimes understand the context in which the story was written?

This is the link to the short story: https://www.cusd200.org/cms/lib/IL01001538/Centricity/Domain/361/oates_going.pdf

It's All Over Now, Baby Blue

Bob Dylan

LYRICS

You must leave now, take what you need, you think will last
But whatever you wish to keep, you better grab it fast
Yonder stands your orphan with his gun
Crying like a fire in the sun
Look out the saints are comin' through
And it's all over now, baby blue

The highway is for gamblers, better use your sense
Take what you have gathered from coincidence
The empty-handed painter from your streets
Is drawing crazy patterns on your sheets
This sky, too, is folding under you
And it's all over now, baby blue

All your seasick sailors, they are rowing home
All your reindeer armies, are all going home
The lover who just walked out your door
Has taken all his blankets from the floor
The carpet, too, is moving under you
And it's all over now, baby blue

Leave your stepping stones behind, something calls for you
Forget the dead you've left, they will not follow you
The vagabond who's rapping at your door
Is standing in the clothes that you once wore
Strike another match, go start anew

And it's all over now, baby blue


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Week 7 Lecture Notes WNC ENG 102 If you haven't yet read "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" in your Week 7 Reading Packet or your assigned readings from the Wiley Guide textbook, please read those first before reading this week's lecture notes. Inspiration and Metaphor in "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" The first time I read this story, I was practically yelling at Connie to CALL THE POLICE. Some of you may have had a similar reaction. Why on earth would she keep talking to this crazy person at her door, let alone get in the car with him? The ending might not have seemed real to you as you read it; the final pages of this story have a dream-like quality, as if everything is moving in slow motion. You may have even had dreams where you pick up the phone but can't seem to make it work, similar to what Connie experiences. While the story begins as a realistic depiction of a 15-year-old girl's life in a small town in the 1960s, by the end a sort of sinister dream logic seems to have taken over. To make things even stranger, this story was inspired in part by a real-life series of murders in the 1960s. However, it's important to note that this story is NOT a literal retelling of what happened in the Pied Piper of Tucson murders. While the character of Arnold Friend shares some characteristics with the murderer Charles Schmid--such as his use of makeup to make him appear younger and his stuffed boots to make him taller--the events in this story, as well as the characters, don't match real events or victims from the actual murders. Additionally, you may have noticed that Joyce Carol Oates dedicated this story to Bob Dylan. That is because she has said many times that the story was inspired by Dylan's 1965 song "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue." You can listen to the song here and read the lyrics here. The song was not all connected with or inspired by the murders; Oates used these two very separate pieces of inspiration while writing her story. So what are we as readers supposed to make of this disturbing story and its seemingly disconnected sources of inspiration? Let's consider Connie's character as a starting point (and again, Connie as a character is entirely fictional--she is not based on a specific victim in the real murders). In many ways, she seems like an average American teenager--she's growing increasingly independent from her family, she seems to hate the idea of growing up to be like her mother or older sister, and she's starting to experiment sexually with boys. She knows that she is beautiful and comes across both as self-absorbed and arrogant in the story. By the time Arnold Friend arrives at her home, however, things in the story shift. Connie's house seems strange and alien to her, and she seems compelled to go with Arnold Friend, as if she has no choice in the matter. Consider the last passage of the story and the final verse of the song "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue": From "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?": "My sweet little blue-eyed girl," he said in a half-sung sigh that had nothing to do with her brown eyes but was taken up just the same by the vast sunlit reaches of the land 1 behind him and on all sides of him so much land that Connie had never seen before and did not recognize except to know that she was going to it. From “It's All Over Now, Baby Blue”: Leave your stepping stones behind, something calls for you Forget the dead you've left, they will not follow you The vagabond who's rapping at your door Is standing in the clothes that you once wore Strike another match, go start anew And it's all over now, Baby Blue In both passages here, we can see images of someone moving away from the world that they have known into some new world. In the song, it seems clear that Dylan isn't talking about someone literally dying, but instead talking about one chapter in a person's life ending, and a new chapter beginning. There is debate about what kind of change is being described in the song, but many people believe it is about a romantic relationship ending, or perhaps even about Dylan himself changing as an artist. In the story, we get a strong sense that Connie is likely going to be sexually assaulted and murdered given Arnold Friend's threatening words. It is with a looming sense of both dread and inevitability that Connie steps forward into the unknown land described at the end of the story. Death has long been used as a metaphor for change and transformation in literature. In the story, it's implied that Connie is likely heading toward a violent death by leaving with Arnold Friend. But the fact that the story is dedicated to Bob Dylan and inspired by a song about change, and the fact that the story turns from realism into a sort of nightmarish surrealism by the end, should be clues to us that the death implied at the end of the story might not be a literal death. There are more layers of meaning here for us as readers to unpack than what is happening at the surface of the story. Connie as a character is in the midst of her teen years, a tremendous time of personal change and growth. When we think about the changes that we go through from childhood into adulthood, many of them are difficult and painful. We may think of growing up as a movement from innocence into experience, and may recall how while we once thought we knew everything as teenagers, we discover how uncertain and unforgiving the world can be as adults. Consider, too, the time period in which this story is written. In the mid-1960s, the United States were undergoing a period of massive social and cultural change led largely by young people. The fact that the story is dedicated to Bob Dylan, such a prominent artist associated with these cultural changes, helps us as readers connect what's happening in the story to the broader changes happening at this time in America as well. Connie's teenage world is disappearing, and the future she is stepping into is becoming untethered from the kind of life her parents had. In the story, this is a disturbing and violent change, but also one that cannot be escaped.
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Running head: INSPIRATION

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‘It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue’ Inspiration
An author may be literary piece may be inspired by various events and occurrences in the
author’s own life or other people’s lives. An author may be motivated by anything in the author’s
environment. Inspiration stimulates and motivates an author’s thought process and ensures that
the author writes in a particular manner and finishes the literary piece (Toolan, 2014).
Additionally, inspiration may influence the actual contents of an author’s literary work as
evidenced by manner in which ‘It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue’ reflects on the contents of
‘Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?’ by Joyce Carol Oates.
In the last paragraph of ‘Where Are You Going, Where Have Y...


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