Stranger Danger a contrast between where are you going, where have you been and the chrysanthemums

In both stories "Where are you going, Where have you been" by Joyce Carol Oates and "The Chrysanthemums" by John Steinbeck the themes are based around coming out of a fantasy by the shock of the real world, deceitful strangers, and the dastardly things they do
Connie is a shallow fifteen year old girl in the year 1970. She is very critical about physical appearance, and social status. Connie is obsessed with the image of being cool and doing the cool things that cool people do, like sneaking across a busy highway to go to a drive in restaurant where the older kids hung out. Connie is very fixated on the concept of cool, like her twenty four year old chunky sister who still lives at home, works at the high school as a secretary, saves money, and goes to family functions is not cool. Elisa is thirty-five and lives in a rural farm, her husband is a cattle herder and her main focus of attention her garden of chrysanthemums. Elisa has dreams of being rebellious, living out on th...