Expressive means and stylistic devices in the story.

         The story is easy to read. I think that the main reason of it, is  a journalistic style. There are also: colloquial, dialect words and slang. Slang words "dope", "nut", "goddamn" and dialect words: "wanta", "don'tcha", can'tcha" are used to  create the autmosphere of teenager's speech, level and education . There are many similes while speaking about the description of  Arnold : "...the nose long and hawklike, sniffing as if she were a treat he was going to gobble up and... " The athor used metaphors while describing Connie.
        These stylistic devices show informal atmosphere, to reveal the Arnold's nature and create a true-to-life atmosphere of the  tenagers life .