What is Appearance What is Reality
What is Appearance, What is Reality? ... ” the protagonist, Connie, and the antagonist, Arnold, show significant truths about appearance vs. reality. ... Wegs, the reader must look “beyond surface realism to evoke…mystery and reality of the…human heart”(66). In the story, Connie is a teenage girl whose appearance does not always match up with what is real. ... Her appearance and how people perceive her means more to her than reality (Wegs 67). ... It is assumed that she was where she was supposed to be all night while in reality she was somewhere she was not supposed to be. This is yet another way that how Connie appears to those around her is not the way things are in reality. In the story, Oates also shows the theme of appearance vs.