If you think back to the time when there wasn't money, no currency of any sort, when having designer jeans compared to Target jeans did not immediately make you more classy, what did define you? In a world like ours today what matters is your house size, your shoe brand, your expensive meals, your exotic vacation spots, whether you're wearing Chanel or Gucci it's all about your social class. In the book the Outsiders I noticed how much the social class made the gangs, the characters in the gangs didn't get to select which one they were a part of. If you were wealthy and very financially stable, you were in the Soc's group if you were not, you were in the Greasers' gang, you didn't have much of a choice. I think that the story would have …show more content…
Hinton). What stood out to me is that the only reason they hate each other is because one has to work and the other doesn't, which displays a difference in social class. I think that she Soc's and Greasers could have all been friends, judging on how well Randy and Ponyboy got along and how well Ponyboy and Cherry Valance got along. But for Paul and Darry they didn't have much of a …show more content…
"But most of them looked at us like we were dirt-gave us the same kinda of look that the Socs did when they came by in their Mustangs and Corvairs and yelled 'Grease!' At us"(15 S.E. Hinton). Because of the Greasers being of a lower class and living in less expensive houses and not so good neighborhoods, all of the people of the middle class or higher class looked at them like "they were dirt" and gave them dirty looks. And with those differences and their rivalries it led to other behavior such as getting jumped by the