This study investigates encoding and decoding in Kuipers' novel "life on the refrigerator door" It tries to answer the following questions: what are the critical stylistic tools that are employed in the novel? What is the most dominant tool among the suggested tools? How is the ideology of encoding and decoding expressed throughout the novel? Accordingly, the study aims at: setting out the critical stylistic devices used in the novel, identifying the most frequent tool amongst the suggested ones, and extracting the ideology of encoding and decoding throughout the novel. To fulfill the aims, the study follows several procedures: presenting an overview of critical Stylistics, encoding and decoding, the novel and the model of the study. Analyzing extracts selected from the novel then the findings and the conclusions are mentioned. The conclusions are: naming and describing is the most dominant tool followed by hypothesizing.  Negating is the least used tool. All the tools are used in different ratios regarding the ideology of encoding and decoding.