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Ponyboy not only has just about the best name we've ever heard of (we dare you to start calling...
Poor Johnny has a really rough life. According to Pony, sixteen-year-old Johnny looks like "a...
At twenty, Darry is the old man in The Outsiders. He's the oldest of the Curtis brothers and,...
Seventeen-year-old Sodapop is Mr. Personality, and he backs that up with lots of heart. Like his...
The rough, rugged and haunted Dallas fascinates Pony. Even before Pony becomes an ace...
Two-Bit is the jokester of the gang and—at eighteen—is also one of the oldest (just...
Pony is least close to Steve, Soda's best friend. Steve thinks of Pony as a child, and doesn't...
Sherri "Cherry" Valance, a girl from a wealthy family (and the girlfriend of a Soc named Bob), is...
Marcia is Cherry's friend and Randy's girlfriend. She's with Cherry at the movies and Pony thinks...
Randy is Marcia's boyfriend, as well as Bob's best friend and partner in crime. He probably...
Bob is Cherry's boyfriend, and he's a complete dirtbag. In a novel full of mostly likable...
David only has a walk-on role in The Outsiders. He's the guy who tries to drown Ponyboy in the...
Sandy is Soda's girlfriend. She isn't involved in any of the present action of The Outsiders, and...
Evie is Steve Randle's girlfriend. She's a behind-the-scenes character who doesn't seem to...
Sylvia was Dallas's girlfriend, but she apparently dated other guys when Dallas was in jail. When...
Johnny's parents are abusive—his mother verbally, and his father physically. They're both...
Since they die before the story begins, we don't meet the Curtis parents. From what we can...
Tim is the leader of another Greaser gang, and a more organized and dangerous one at that. When...
Curly is Tim's little brother and a member of his gang.
The Brumly boys are—you guessed it—from Brumly (which seems to be a fictional suburb...
Buck is Dallas's roommate, and another behind-the-scenes character. He loans Dally his T-Bird,...
Paul appears once, at the rumble, on the Socials' side. He used to be good friends with Darry...
Mr. Syme is Pony's English teacher. Pony likes him and says that he's a good teacher, and really...
The Judge is a very minor character who appears, fittingly, during the courtroom scene in the...
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