Hi, I need help with essay on Compare & Contrast. Paper must be at least 750 words. Please, no plagiarized work!Life, by definition brings many trials and tribulations as we move through its path, and

Hi, I need help with essay on Compare & Contrast. Paper must be at least 750 words. Please, no plagiarized work!

Life, by definition brings many trials and tribulations as we move through its path, and in order to cope with the demands and suffering it imposes, our subconscious is able to take us out of reality to a world of fantasy. a world in which we have and do what we want not what we need, or what is imposed by society. Connie, the main character in ‘where are you going, where have you been?’ (Oates) was in reality an adolescent with little actual knowledge of adult life. in fantasy however, she was a mature woman appealing to boys and men alike. She lived her life on the periphery between childhood and adulthood, whereupon she wavered from one side to the other. Her same clothes connoted different personas dependent on whether she was in or out of the home. her hairstyle, makeup and outward behavior changed to the occasion as to whether or not there were males in her vicinity, and she lived a life of pretence with her mother. In fact ‘everything about her had two sides to it’ (Oates 451). Even when feeling intimidated when confronted by Arnold Friend her thoughts still flickered back to the first time he had seen her and ‘how she had sucked in her breath’ (Oates 456) in effort to appear more beguiling. ...

hen menaced by Friend, Connie seemed to take one step forward towards what she knew would be her reality as a woman but in the next instant she took two steps backwards into her world of fantasy. At one moment she was frightened and felt threatened by Friend and the next she was making observations as to his reality in terms of his voice sounding like the man on the radio, his wearing of make-up, his age, and his wig. such a psychological switch may have been a means of defense to place what she then perceived as reality and a threat, as something that was in fact fantasy and not real. ‘First Lieutenant Jimmy Cross’ (O’Brien) the main character in ‘the things they carried’ , was a twenty two year old American soldier in the Vietnam War. he was a man who, like Connie lived life on the periphery between fantasy and reality, between the man he personified and the man he really was. He portrayed himself as a strong man in command of his life and position when in reality he was inefficient and hated being in the war. his life was a facade. he was a lieutenant and thus had men in his command but rather than face the realities of war and its atrocities his subconscious would take over and take him into his world of fantasy, a world that revolved around Martha. Martha was a school mate with whom he had had one date, and of whom he possessed two photographs and a lucky pebble. She wrote him letters that were purely platonic and Jimmy new that in reality there was no love from her towards him other than as friend, but he loved her and used this fantasy as a mechanism to escape from the torments of war.