He tells Connie to put the phone back because he wants to cut off her ways to ask for help. This reminds me of the Old Testament in Genesis, where Satan tempted Eve with gentle words and forbidden fruit. Similarly, Arnold Friend is pretending to care for her by saying “That′s a good girl”, while actually making her drop her free will.

Her mother, to add salt to the wound, would praise her sister, June. Whatever June is Connie isn’t. A distraught favoritism at play.

It's interesting to see how she downplays her friendship with Pettinger, an attempt to have it fly under her mother's radar, preserving her social life.

An uncertain fate awaits Connie as she is taken away. Whether she really recognize the place or not, the landscape here represents uncertainty, vast and unknown.

I think this sentence was very interesting is because it shows that Connie is two different people at home and outside. It feels like the common phenomenon among teenagers: "one way in front of parents, another way outside."

Human beings eager to acknowledge how the world works and who we are .