This great distance between her and her family led her to relay something else that could give her pleasure and joy, it was all the boys that she had been with it. Spending time with boys gave her a feeling of happiness, where she dreamed of them all day long. An example of this is when Oats says, "Connie sat with her eyes closed in the sun, dreaming and dizzy with the heat around her as if it were some kind of love, the caresses of love, and her mind turned to thoughts of the boy she had been with the night before and how nice he had been” (p. 439). For Connie, it was the boys who disconnected her from her family, they were a means of escape because it wasn't that pleasant to be with her family. Connie's social life was very active, which is why she knew a lot of people and a lot of people knew her too. One evening, while going to a restaurant with her friends, she sees a guy in a convertible car painted gold. The guy stares at her, making her uncomfortable. After that he told her "I'm going to have you, baby”