Dallas Winston In The Outsiders

Most people in the world are misunderstood at some point in their life. However, if other people’s perceptions of a person create a reputation, it can camouflage their real traits. Dallas (Dally) Winston is a victim of this. A character in the book The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, Dally is commonly known for being a tough ruthless guy who doesn’t care about anybody but himself. He’s a great fighter and is very confident, but because of his past, it seems his real qualities have been masked. Even though Dallas Winston’s friends misunderstood him to be a cold-hearted and tough person, his experiences and how he treats his friends reveals his loving, self-reliant, and dependable nature.

Throughout the story, we see Dally do many reckless things, but it all starts in the beginning when Ponyboy introduces Dally to the readers. “He has been arrested, he got drunk, he rode in rodeos, lied, cheated, stole, rolled drunks, jumped small kids- he did everything.” (Page 11) From this quote, we learn that Dally will do anything- even if it means jail for him. He has a miniscule sense of self control, and we see that through his actions. Another quote that shows his recklessness is when Dally breaks some news to Pony and Johnny. “ ‘We can’t walk alone at all. I started carryin’ a heater…’ ” (Page 83) EVen though Dally keeps the gun not loaded, the police do not know that. If Dally pulls the gun out, which he does in chapter 11, the police will shoot him down. By carrying the gun, he is putting himself in danger, but he does not care. The final time where his reckless shines through is on page 29, when Dallas slashed the tires on someone’s car. EVen though the consequences will be serve, Dally does not think about what he is doing and does it anyway. Through his actions, he proves that he has no self control and really is reckless. This trait goes hand in hand with one of his other traits- he is a hothead and has a short

In the book Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, there is a character named Dally who is often very rebellious. He commits any crime that would give him thrills and shows savage pride in the fights he won. Although Dally seems “tough” and bold on the outside, he is far from being gallant. He shows signs of vulnerability as he lacks a lot of knowledge and skills that are vital in creating a balanced life.

This causes Dally to become reckless and finally ending in him being killed by the police, Ponyboy tells the reader “Dally Winston wanted to be dead and he always got what he wanted.” (p.187). From this the reader can gather how the events had modified Dally, creating a more emotional and caring character, weakening his value for himself and in return, strengthening his value for others.

Through the eyes of Dally, it is evident that being tough was the only way to survive in a world plagued by the separation of social classes. Dally carefully constructs a reputation of being hard and emotionally distant as a survival mechanism, and a way to secure his identity as a greaser. In one of Dally’s more

The Outsiders, by S.E Hinton, is a novel which tells the story of two rival gangs from Oklahoma in 1965. The rivalry is between Greasers who are much poorer than their counterparts from the west-side, the Socials. Ponyboy Curtis is the narrator of this story, and it is through his eyes that the events unfold. In this classic, there three characters who stood out from the rest: Darry Curtis, Dally Whinston and of course, Johnny Cade. But, are they heroes? To answer this question, one must first know what a hero is. In my opinion, a hero is a person who, in the face of danger, adversity or from a position of weakness, display courage and self-sacrifice for the greater good.

The outsiders is a novel of conflicts- greaser against soc, rich against poor, the desire for violence against the desire for peace. The characters of Dally and Johnny affect the novelś conflicts as greasers and as friends of Ponyboy, however they have opposite personalities and approaches. Johnny is quiet, caring, and loyal. however Dally is mean, caring, and tough.

He was only 20, but he never really got to know what that was like. The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton took place in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in the mid 1960’s. In addition, conflicts between two gangs were on the rise and the Curtis family was stuck in the middle of it. The main character Ponyboy Curtis had had two older brothers Sodapop and Darrel “Darry” Curtis. Darry happened to stand out because of his father figure presence in this novel. He had to grow up when he was only 20 years old. Both of Darry’s parents had died in a car wreck, forcing him to take on the responsibilities of his two younger brothers. Darry is a responsible, caring, and a prideful young man.

He took the fall for someone else so they don’t have to go to jail. He saved him from having a criminal record and the danger of jail. Dally took the sentence for Two-Bit and didn’t even say a word. As Johnny said, “that’s gallant.” Even though Dally may not act like a hero all of the time, he can be one when he is really needed.

One thing you can grasp from his death and this detail is the cops killed Dally because they shot him but in the example given it shows he knew what hes was doing, so basically Dally wanted to die. Another example is Dally never went on a rampage and robbed from that grocery store the cops wouldn’t have been searching for him. According to “The Outsiders” on page 153 its says “ It was Dally. He phoned from a booth. He just robbed a grocery store and the cops are after him.”

reader stops to think and asks himself, Why would Dally do that? The answer lies within his

Dally loves Johnny and never hits Johnny even when Johnny talked back to him. He always liked Ponyboy’s mom who brought out the best in Dally. He used to say, “Your mom sure does know the score, Pony.” Behind all that toughness, Dallas Winston does love some things, and he still has

A second example of this is when Dallas pulls a switchblade on the nurse. On pages 143-144 it says, “‘I thought you were in the hospital,’ I yelled… ‘Talked the nurse into it with Two-bits switch.’...” This shows how Dallas likes being a rebel. As you can tell Dally is a rebel who doesn’t like following the

Johnny and Dally have many similarities between each other. Johnny and Dally both have abusive parents that do not pay attention to them . Dally´s abusive parents don not care about Dally at all. In fact, Dally never mentions anything about his parents anything except on page 88 where he says, ”Shoot, my old man don't give a hang whether I am in jail or dead in a car wreck or drunk in the gutter.” Dally basically says that his dad does not care where he goes

Title Have you ever lost or seen someone injured before? If you have then you and Dallas Winston are very similar. The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton is about 2 gangs that are alike but in the same way, so different, the socs and the greasers. One night someone took something to0 far and created a massacre. One character that stands out in the story is Dally because, hme was a round and dynamic character.