The Outsiders Character Map

Greasers (2-4)

Greasers

• East Side (2)
• Poor (3)
• Steal things; keep their doings to themselves (3)
• Dress in blue jeans + T-shirts (3)
• Grew up in a tight knit neighborhood (3)
• Go Dingo and Jay’s dinner to hang out (19)
• Work together as family and stick up for each other (29)
• Drive souped up cars (3)

Socs (2-4)

Socs

• West Side (2)
• Rich (2)
• Fight (jump) people for fun (3)
• Show up on papers but become an asset later in society (3)
• Wear kaki slacks as well as madras shirts (36)
• Are quick in action (5)
• “Social Clubs” (2)
• Go to The Way Out and to Rusty’s (19)

Not like the socs, who jump greacers and wreck houses and throw beer blasts for kicks,"

Ponyboy

Pony Boy

• 14 years old (2)
• “light-brown, almost-red hair and greenish-gray eyes… long hair” (1).
• Digs in movies and books more than any other grease (2)
• Book smart, “I make good grades and have a high IQ and everything,” (4).
• Loves soda pop more than anyone else (2)
• Sometimes hates Steve Randal (14)
• Shy, “I'm usually pretty quiet around people, even the gang” (12)
• He is the narrator of the book.
• The main reason why he is called pony boy is becasue of his long light brownish read hair.
• Oldest brother; Darry
• Older brother; Sodapop

Darry

Darrel

• 20 years old (2)
• Darry is six-feet-two, and broad shouldered and muscular.(6)
• Is hardworking since he works for such a long time (2-16)
• Oldest brother (2)
• Darry is shown to “holler” at Pony a lot (2).
• Hard, firm, rough + rarely smiling (2)
• Grew up too fast (a lack of parental figures 3) (2)
• “Darry isn’t every sorry for anything he does” (6)
• He is the fatther figure of Ponyboy due to their parents dieing at a young age in an auto wreck. (3)

Sodapop

• “second oldest brother…sixteen-going-on-seventeen…(2)
• “He is always happy-go-lucky and grinning…(2)
• “He's not as tall as Darry, and he’s a little slimmer, but he had a finely drawn sensitive face” (8)
• High school drop-out (13)
• Sticks up for Ponyboy when Darry picks/teases him (8-9)
• He hopes to marry Sandy his current girlfriend one day.
• "Soda's is movie star kind-of handsome" (7)

Sodapop

Dally (Dallas) (Hinton 11)

• Went to jail at the age of 10 (10)
• Cares most about Johnny (24)
• ”He had an elfish face” (10)
• “he was tougher than the rest of us --tougher, colder, meaner.”(11)
• ”His eyes were blue-blazing ice, cold with a hatred of the whole world.”(10)
• Age 17
• "The shade of difference that separates a greaser from a hood wasn't present in him" (10-11)
• He dated sylivia several times.
• Johnny is like his pet in the sence that he portects Johnny.

Dally (Dallas)

Johnny

Johnny

• Was 16 years old when got jumped by the Socs (4)
• Takes a lot for him to cry (12)
• The gang’s and Dally’s pet (23)
• Hardly ever talks to girls (24)
• ”He has a nervous suspicious look in his eyes…” (11)
• ”Johnny worshiped the grounded Dallas walked on.”(25)
• ”He was the youngest, smaller than the rest, with a slight build…” (11)
• He is 18 years old.
• He has issues at home "Johnny's father was always beating him ujp and was a drunk withle his mother was a selfish slob who always ignored him except when she was halked off at something." (12-13)

Steve Randle

• He is a important 17 year old Greacer with a girl frind named Evie (14).
• ”seventeen, tall and lean, with thick greasy hair” (9)
• He is cocky, smart, and Soda’s best buddy since grade school (9)
• Works at the same gas station as Soda (14)
• Isn’t liked by Pony (14)
• Is an intellectual when working with cars (9)
• Ponyboy says "he could lift a hubcap quickly and more quietly thank any one else in the neiborhood, but he also knew cars upside down and could dirve anything on wheels."

Steve Randle

Two-Bit (Keith)

• 18 year old; "Two bit was the oldest of the gang." (10)
• Famous for shoplifting (10)
• Known for his black-handled switchblade (10)
• Good at voice imitations (27)
• “He had gray eyes and wide grin, and he couldn’t stop making funny remarks...”(9-10)
• “Two Bit Mathew was the oldest of the gang and the wisecracker of the bunch.” (9)
• Was called Two Bit becasue he had to get his "Two Bits" in any conversation.

Two-Bit (Keith)

Marcia

Marcia

• ”[She] had short dark hair…”(21)
• Cute + sweet to others (25)
• Isn’t bothered by people (30)
• “...dressed sharp and really good looking” (21)
• ”She was a little smaller than Cherry…”(25)
• 16-17 years old (21)
• Resourceful (30)
• Shorter than Cherry
• She shares a sence of humor with Two Bit (26-30) when they say "Who's this , your great-autns?" "great-grand mothers, twice revoved," (26)

Cherry (Sherri Valance)

• Has long red hair (21)
• Feisty “‘You’d better leave us alone,’the redhead said in a biting voice, ‘or I’ll call the cops.’”(22)
• Short-tempered and Classy (21-25)
• Cheerleader “[Ponyboy] had seen her before; she was a cheerleader at [their] school.”(21)
• Stubborn and principled “Cherry had said she wouldn’t drink Dally’s coke if she was starving, and she meant it,” (30)
• Goodlooking (21)
• 16-17 years old (21)

Cherry (Sherri Valance)

• Cherry's Boyfriend

Bob

• Marcy's Boyfriend

Randy