Question

How is music used throughout the story, especially to develop character and setting? Why is music so important to Connie? What does Oates mean when she writes in paragraph 94 that "even the music that was so familiar to her [Connie] was only half real"? Why does Oates describe Arnold as having "the voice of the man on the radio now" (para. 88)? What is the significance of Connie’s later recognition that Arnold spoke "with a slight rhythmic lilt, . . . [his words] the echo of a song from last year" (para. 118)?

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