Alice Munro published “How I Met My Husband.” The story is told from the first-person point of view the voice of the fifteen-year-old Edie, working as a “hired girl” (206) in the house of the Peebles family. In Joyce Carol Oates short story "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" The story begins with Connie, a fifteen-year-old teenager growing up in 1960's suburbia. She is preoccupied with typical teenage concerns: her looks and popular music. Some of the main themes of the two short stories are youthful, romantic fantasy both girls are naïve, and sometimes people can be blind to the truth of things, this is demonstrated several times through the short stories. In "How I Met My Husband," Edie is quite a storyteller; even as a teenager, she has a quick and healthy sense of identity even though she also seeks greater fulfillment in life. Chris Watters a pilot who intends to sell rides on his airplane while living in a tent at the fairgrounds. In "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" Connie prides herself on being a skilled flirt who has never been in a situation she could not handle. Arnold Friend a dangerous boy/man who comes to Connie’s house and threatens her. Munro’s “How I Met My Husband” and Oates "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" are similar in the coincidence that the main characters are both young and in love with love. Even though they are both in love with love they are very different in their personalities, and values. One similarity that the main characters, Edie and Connie, have in common is that they both lack knowledge. "All of it is clear to a person who has understanding and right to those who have acquired knowledge" (Proverbs 8:6-9). Munro and Oates give a good example of the meaning of this in their short stories. In the beginning of this story, Edie and Connie are very naïve fifteen-year-old girls. They do not yet realize that the world does not cater to them, or tell them how to do everything in life. One way Edie in “How I Met My Husband” shows this is by thinking that at school, “the work was hard, they didn't make it nice for you or explain” (Munro 204). When Edie tries on the dress and Chris catches her wearing it, she is too naïve to notice that he is teasing her, and she “didn't know how to joke” (Munro 206). In "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" Connie exhibits her often superficial behavior typical of a teenage girl facing the difficult transition from girlhood to womanhood. Connie flaunts herself when she is out with her friend. Oates writes, “She drew her shoulders up and sucked in her breath with the pure pleasure of being alive, and just at that moment she happened to glance at a face just a few feet from hers. It was a boy with shaggy hair, in a convertible jalopy painted gold” (586). This type of behavior is a clear example of a person who has no understanding and very little knowledge of