In the story “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been” by Joyce Carol Oates, we see the story of a young girl named Connie who makes bad decisions in her life. She has an excess of self-confidence that gets her into trouble in her life. Connie will do anything to impress guys with her looks and eventually this will lead to her impressing the wrong guy. From this story, using the idea of ​​feminist criticism, we can see that too much self-confidence can help lead to a false sense of security and lead to male dominance over a person. Feminist criticism can be defined as having to address the stereotypical representation of genders (feminist criticism). Within this story we can see the stereotypes of women. Connie is a teenager who at this point in her life only cares about her friends and her boyfriend. At the same time he wants as much attention as possible, especially from guys who tries to make himself more attractive and attractive. However, going out of her way to make herself attractive to boys is dangerous because she is still a little girl. She was engulfed in the fact that she thought she was beautiful and it was the only thing she wanted. His confidence seemed to be based solely on his appearance and did not take into account his reputation or personality. The author also said “She knew she was pretty and that was all” (Oates, pg. 1408). When a girl is too materialistic, more people take advantage of her because they think they have no morals. Even Connie's friends and the people she surrounded herself with knew how selfish she was. Her mother said to her "Stop gaping, who are you? You think you're so pretty?" (Oates, pg. 1408) Do you think that as a mother you should empower… half of the paper. .....f Joyce Carol Oates." denittise2008-1. Np, nd Web. 27 November 2013. http://libres.uncg.edu/ir/uncw/f/denittise2008-1.pdf>"Literary Theories: A Sampling of Critical Lenses." microsoft_word_-_literary_theories. Np, nd Web. November 27, 2013. http://www.mpsaz.org/rmhs/staff/rkcupryk/aa_jr/files/microsoft_word_-_literary_theories.pdf.Rodriguez, Jennifer. “Morphing the Gothic: the new voice of Gothic literature among contemporary women writers” Google Books, nd Web, November 27, 2013. http://books.google.com/books?id=DlvxYladGBsC&pg=PA42&lpg=. PA42&dq=arnold+amico +male+dominance&source=bl&ots=GCb9QU-tPg&sig=Jw7POx1ajNTiKrFz3QJ-IFm6hF4&hl=en&sa=X&ei=_cKOUq76M8misAStnIGYBw&ved=0CCkQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=arnold%20friend%20 male%20dominance&f=false.O ates, Joyce Carol, where are you Going, where have you been Giving importance to literature. New York: San Martino, 2012.