The Outsiders Society and Class Quotes Page 2
Citations follow this format: (Part.Paragraph)
| Quote #4 "Good behavior. Got off early." (1.54) |
These are the words of Dallas Winston, of course. When the novel begins, he's just gotten out of jail. Dallas, like many of the characters in the novel, belongs to a criminal class. We see criminal behavior in both Greasers and Socials.
| Quote #5 When you're thirteen in our neighborhood you know the score. I kept saving for a year, thinking that someday I could buy Mickey Mouse back for Soda. You're not so smart at ten. (3.14) |
Mickey Mouse (the horse) becomes, for Pony, a symbol of his family's economic class. He doesn't understand why some boys can own horses and others can't. Plus, Mickey Mouse and Soda loved each other. Shouldn't love be enough?
| Quote #6 "Maybe the two different worlds we live in weren't so different. We saw the same sunset." (3.18) |
Cherry Valance gets Pony thinking about nature – something he already loves – as a connecting factor that doesn't care about class or wealth.
