- All's Well That Ends Well
- Antony and Cleopatra
- As You Like It
- The Comedy of Errors
- Coriolanus
- Cymbeline
- Hamlet
- Henry IV, Part 1
- Henry IV, Part 2
- Henry V
- Henry VI, Part 1
- Henry VI, Part 2
- Henry VI, Part 3
- Henry VIII
- Julius Caesar
- King John
- King Lear
- Love's Labor's Lost
- A Lover's Complaint
- Macbeth
- Measure for Measure
- The Merchant of Venice
- The Merry Wives of Windsor
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Much Ado About Nothing
- Othello
- Pericles
- The Rape of Lucrece
- Richard II
- Richard III
- Romeo and Juliet
- Shakespeare's Sonnets
- The Taming of the Shrew
- The Tempest
- Timon of Athens
- Titus Andronicus
- Troilus and Cressida
- Twelfth Night
- The Two Gentlemen of Verona
- Venus and Adonis
- The Winter's Tale
This quote appears after the rest of Connie’s family has left to attend a barbecue and she is home alone, sitting in the sun. Oates demonstrates that Connie has had multiple romantic encounters, and that they have all been positive and consensual. In this way, Oates establishes Connie’s level of sexual experience: the reader understands that Connie has always previously had a degree of control when dealing with boys, and suspects that she is still a virgin. She is on the cusp of womanhood, but still a young girl exploring what it means to be an adult. These lines also…