The story "Where are you going, where have you been?" is not at all what I expected when I read it. When the professor recited the first paragraph in class and we compared it to Snow White, I figured it was in the fairy tale category. Joyce Oates wrote this story after reading an article on Charles Howard Schmid. Arnold Friend is based off of Charles. The story written by Joyce hits a bit harder than the article for me because I can picture myself in the story.