The grandmother illustrates this because she knows that Bailey doesn’t want to stop anywhere but now since she thought about it, “the more she wanted to see it” (O’Connor 2118) she even goes on telling her grandkids this great story about the plantation, knowing that the kids would plead with Bailey to stop and check it out, ultimately getting what she wanted. “Her mother was so simple; Connie thought, that it was maybe cruel to fool her so much” (Oates 2128). Connie ‘fools’ her mother into thinking she’s a good girl but she really just wants to go out and meet boys at night.
Another similarity between the two stories is the point of view that the authors wrote them in, an outsider’s perspective. Although both stories are written like this they are both told through the central female lead