Could Connie have been better prepared for this encounter with evil? What evidence does the author give to show how prepared she is or isnt?

Fifteen-year-old Connie exhibits the confusing, often superficial behavior typical of a teenage girl facing the difficult transition from girlhood to womanhood. She is rebellious, vain, self-centered, and deceitful. She is caught between her roles as a daughter, friend, sister, and object of sexual desire, uncertain of which one represents the real her: "Everything about her had two sides to it, one for home and one for anywhere that was not home."