Please, correct my mistakes in essay. Thank you! I have read a short story by J. C. Oates. The story tells us about 15 years old girl, Connie and her contradictory life. From the one hand, she is a freedom-loving person, from the other hand; her life is restricted by her parents. She dreams about escape and an out of duties life, but when the opportunity comes, she thinks the matter over. The contradictions pierce her whole life through. The internal conflict of young girl as we all experienced once. Is it a standard practice for each growing up person? I assume «Yes». To my mind, this story is a kind of The Rorschach test, because every person sees it according to his or her own experience. We find analogy among the lines and events of the story. I suppose, it is the main value of it. From my point of view, the short novel is a metaphor, which says us about a high-time for growing up. We have to leave everything and set off a new, dangerous journey, which is called “life”. A journey without our parents, without our home and things, which we get use you to live with. Unfortunately, there is no escaping from it. The story full of symbols, witches are proving it to us. The screen door symbolizes a border between our past and our future. A big, safety house with a fence is our past, our carefree childhood. While two strangers with a jalopy are our inexperienced future and we have to try it. The last passage of the story is the most valuable, to my mind. It gives a full scope to our imagination and our feelings. It is a kind of an open end; you have a chance to finish it according to your own choice. As I said before, I rather think, that land behind Arnold`s back, which Connie have not seen before a one more metaphor for future. The anticipation of fear don`t leave us until the end. Is it that very feeling, which we tend to feel overstepping the line between childhood and a life of a grown up person? Unexplored lands and unknown paths are waiting for us. The dedication of this story to Bob Dylan is not a coincidence. It is one more proof for my idea about the story. The lines « Leave your stepping stones behind, something calls for you…» and «And it's all over now, Baby Blue» depict once again, that our life is a toward movement, due to circumstances beyond our control. In conclusion I want to say, that this story a really controversial as the life of the main character, but despite on it I enjoyed reading it and came through all feeling, which it gave to me.