Character one
Doesn't like Ponyboy because he tags along everywhere.
Steve
Narrator of The Outsiders.
Ponyboy
Was in a gang in New York.
Dallas Winston
"I think I'm gonna marry Sandy. After she gets out of school and I get a better job and everything. I might wait till you get out of school though."
Sodapop Curtis
"You could use a bath, greaser. And a good working over. And we've got all night to do it. Give the kid a bath, David."
Bob Sheldon
Tries to appreciate all the good in life despite the bad.
Ponyboy
Died because he pulled a gun on the cops.
Dallas (Dally) Winston
Will not go visit Johnny in the hospital.
Cherry Valance
"Stay gold, Ponyboy. Stay gold..."
Johnny Cade
"That kid you killed had plenty of friends all over town. It's Socs against Grease. We can't walk alone at all. I started carryin' a heater."
Dallas Winston
The wisecracker of the bunch; he always has something to say.
Two-Bit
Gives Johnny a gun.
Dallas (Dally)
Dies because he cannot recover from his injuries.
Johnny Cade
"I didn't mean to! I didn't think! I forgot! That's all I hear out of you! Can't you think of anything?"
Darry Curtis
Sodapop Curtis
Tries to get his parents to say "no" to him.
Bob Sheldon
Tells Johnny's mom "no wonder he hates your guts."
Two-Bit
Is tired of being the middleman between his two brothers.
"You'd better wise up...you get tough like me and you don't get hurt."
Dallas Winston
"He couldn't have been over seventeen or eighteen, and I killed him. How'd you like to live with that?"
Johnny Cade
Gave up an opportunity to go to college because he had to take care of his brothers.
Darry Curtis
He gets drunk on "just plain living."
Sodapop Curtis
Likes school because he has an audience that will pay attention to him.
Two-Bit
"I can stay away all night, and nobody notices. At least you got Soda. I ain't got nobody."
Johnny Cade
"So I'd fight if I thought it'd do any good. I think I'm going to leave town. Take my little old Mustang and all the dough I can carry and get out."
Randy