The characters of the story 

There are 6 characters of the story but among them two main characters-Connie and Arnold Friend. I would like to tell about all of them paying much attention, of course, to the main characters.
     Connie is the protagonist of the story as she comes into conflict with an opposing major character. Arnold Friend is antagonist. Connie is fifteen-year-old teenager who shows all difficulties of this age and tries to experience the adult life. She wants to be attractive and wear short skirts. She is a beautiful and self-confident girl: “...she knew she was pretty and that was everything”. She is romantic because of the songs which she enjoys listening. She wants to attract attention of everybody: "She was fifteen and she had a quick, nervous giggling habit of craning her neck to glance into mirrors". She is a good girl at home but when she walks with her friends she behaves candidly.
    Speaking about Arnold one can notice that he also wants to be in the high light but only to Conni. He has an unusual appearance:"...had a fair, hairless face, cheeks reddened slightly as if the veins grew too close to the surface of his skin, the face of a forty-year-old baby".He thinks that a fashion sunglasses, the car and music will attract and she go with him. At first, she is flattered by his coming but than she realises his real intention. He doesn't force her physically to ride with him, but his words are very forceful. He is a violent person.
      Connie's mother doesn't love her daughter because of her beauty :""Stop gawking at yourself. Who are you? You think you're so pretty?" she would say." ; "Her mother had been pretty once too, if you could believe those old snapshots in the album, but now her looks were gone and that was why she was always after Connie." However she calls her mother when Arnold persuade her to go with him. This is a great example when the lack of her mother's love can send a person into someone's bad arms.
   We dont know about June, Connie's sister a lot of information, only that  their mother  always compares them.Mother loves June more than Conny: "she was so plain and chunky and steady that Connie had to hear her praised all the time by her mother and her mother's sisters. June did this, June did that, she saved money and helped clean the house and cooked and Connie couldn't do a thing, her mind was all filled with trashy daydreams."
  Betty is Connie's best friend,  Her father often drives them out to the  plaza.There is one interesting fact: Arnold brings up her name. It means that she could be not a good friend and give him information about Connie.
   Ellie is an Arnold's friend. He spends  time in the car listening to a radio.  He's older than Arnold,maybe he is in his 40s.