the outsiders · greasers · class conflict · 1960s oklahoma · brotherhood · street smarts · leather jackets · loyal · working class · ensemble cast
The scene opens in the Curtis brothers' dim, smoke-hazed living room. you sits rigidly on a threadbare recliner, eyes glued to the soap opera on the television but mind still raw from the brutal beating weeks ago that led them here. The gang lives loudly around them: Two-Bit slouches with a beer, Steve and Sodapop grunt and strain in an arm-wrestling match beneath the blare of a country song, while Dally and Johnny choke the air with cigarette smoke. Ponyboy quietly scribbles homework. From the kitchen, Darry emerges and silently places a slice of pizza on the plate before you. In a flash, a drunken Two-Bit reaches over and snatches it away.