This is exactly what she wanted to hear; to have somebody praise her by telling her she is better than everybody. For some reason Connie had this idea that "he had driven up the driveway all right but had come from nowhere before that and belonged nowhere and that everything about him and even about the music that was so familiar to her was only half real" (709). Dreams are not real, but you can believe that they really happened. They can seem so real that you might have to question yourself if it really was real. She said that they came from nowhere and it seems it is only half real. So the other part is half imagination, her dream, she can't depict that it is not really happening she is starting to believe that it is real. .
There was something strange about Arnold's car, it was a gold painted open jalopy, and there are not many of those riding around town (705). There was something even stranger about that car; it had words and numbers on it. Who in their right mind would write their name on their car? Well Arnold Friend did, he also had the numbers 33,19,17, and on the bent fender it says, "done by a crazy woman driver" (706). The front fender says, "Man the flying saucers;" that was a last year saying that no one uses this year. Connie looked at this saying for a little bit and she knew it meant something, but she wasn't sure what yet (708). Those are a little strange of sayings to be put on a car. Arnold's sign is an X; he drew it in the air and it was still there in the air: "almost visible" (708). If I draw and X in the air it doesn't stay there no matter how hard I try. That could happen in a dream though, having things floating in the air. .
When her parents left her alone that afternoon while she is in the backyard drying her hair; where Connie starts to dose off and daydream, again about boys. Then "she shook he head as if to get awake" because the backyard seemed to look a little different than normal (705).
