The Outsiders: Race and Class

stigmatize s oh there is this weird sense that having

long hair long dark hair makes you seem lesser than

other people less clean less well kept and certainly class

is a big issue Pony boy talks about seaming educated

or not educated people worry about having money or not

having money So yeah there's a lot of stigma to [Ponyboy holding cash and poor man appears]

basically being not the normative successful quote unquote clean, perfect person...