Where are you going, where have you been.

This story was actually based on a murder case happened in 1965. The murderer the Pied Piper of Tuscon, as people called, killed three girls using the same way Arnold Friend use to ask girls out. They design their own boots to stuff in them and make themselves look taller. They will act as someone "cool" and "fashion" with mess hair style, expensive radio and old car. Unfortunately, they succeed every time. I have been wandering that why their weird and crazy appearances were able to lure girls into their traps.
In 1960, "Baby Boomer"s were growing up. Unlike their parents, they share on common with the society which had a lot of problems. They embraced a ambiance that they disagreed with, and so this difference resulted in a sense of rebel. At first, to their parents: Connie hates whatever said by her mother. Then to the appreciation standard: she also hates to be a  
girl like her sister that  behave herself. She shuts the world down in front of her by listening to music. In seek for outbreak, she has been always dreamed about having a boy friend. In this way, the only thing she can accept is her own dream, and her life has already been dried out. In void, she prays for lights to fulfill her heart. Here comes Arnold Friend, but he is nothing but a fraud who takes advantage of her desire to seek a boy friend and to escape from the reality. However, her life was still vacuous with only dreams. As she does at the end of the story, she left with her body, but her soul has been left off in the house. Dreams always conflict with reality, and so her soul is crushed by the reality. No longer had she any soul.