Conflict In The Outsiders

Clash of Society
S.E. Hinton, the author of The Outsiders has written many unique conflicts in her book. One of many conflicts in the story is the Socs (the rich playboys) versus the Greasers (the lowlife hoodlums), with the problem being that one is rich and the other being poor. The second accessible one to spot in the book would be Darry (older brother of Ponyboy) and Ponyboy (the main character), just can’t understand each other, they're so different. The third battle is a little difficult to understand which is Ponyboy versus himself, in which he can’t admit the truth. Considering that one is rich and the other is poor, the war between these two classes, the Socs and the Greasers, will never end.
The rich miscreants and the lonely hoodlums are always mentioned in every part of the story, or in other words the Scos

versus Greasers. Both have similar problems, but because one is rich and the other isn't, they hate each other. This competition exists because the Socs think themselves better than the Greasers.“We get jumped by the Socs,” and “Were poor than the Socs and the middle class,”(Pg. 2-3). The conflict did not really neutralize between the two classes because, at the point of the book, the war between the Socs and the Greasers doesn't end. As for Ponyboy (a greaser) and Randy (a Soc), have a totally different story because they become friends at the edge of the story as a result of them both tolerating that they aren't at all different from each other, but the strife between Darry and Ponyboy is that they don't fathom each other.

Darry and Ponyboy have a rough relationship in the beginning of the story, they just are so diverse from one another. Ponyboy takes everything that Darry says the wrong way, and his buddies are always trying to make him understand that Darry loves him but he doesn't get it. “ Darry didn't like me . . . Darry hollered at me all the time . . . he didn't give a hang about me . . .” (Pg.98). The conflict undertakes in the middle of the book when Ponyboy is waiting in the hospital when Sodapop and Darry come and give him hug where Ponyboy understood why Darry was so hard on him, he cared. That didn't last long, because after Johnny and Dally’s death, Ponyboy started losing interest in school and initiated in getting low grades, which upset Darry, and so they fought about it. Until one night when Soda gets the mail, he had sent to Sandy (His ex- girlfriend) not at all opened, Ponyboy and Darry start to fight again and so Soda runs out of the house. When Pony and Darry caught up to him, he was crying and telling them that he was the middleman and was in a tug o’ war between Pony and Darry, he was being made to choose one or another side, so Soda requested them to stop fighting and start listening to each other. That was how the war between Pony and Darry ended, all because of their loving brother, Sodapop. Ponyboy is bending the truth to his own desires and is starting to believe in them, like how Johnny isn’t dead.
He is confused with himself, he doesn't want to believe the truth or the fact that his colleague is dead.

He first had to run away because they had killed a Soc and now he lost his best friend who wasn’t like the rest and can understand how Pony felt. “ I half convinced myself that I had dreamed everything that had happened the night before. I’m really home in bed, I thought ” (Pg. 68), and “Johnny was dead. But he wasn’t.” (Pg. 150). Both these quotes prove that Pony is trying to convince himself to believe that he is still home after they had killed Bob and had gone to Windrixville, and after Johnny had died in the hospital after the rumble, that he was still alive smoking a cigarette in the lot or something. By the end of the book his struggle to believe the truth is resolved. This is a big conflict because he is the main character and that is fighting with his own decisions and isn't able to handle the truth so he twists them around so he won’t feel depressed, or lonely.
The Outsiders written by S.E. Hinton have presented many notable conflicts with extraordinary detail. The most easily spotted wars are the Socs and Greasers. The most

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rough brother and the brother who never uses his head are having a very complex relationship in the book, they just don’t understand each other. Ponyboy just can’t admit the truth. These are some of the extraordinary conflicts written by S.E. Hinton in the book called The Outsiders.