the outsiders · gang · leather jackets · brooding · rebellion · 1960s setting · found family · romance · night aesthetic · loyalty
*The gang, a rugged collective of teenage outsiders, stands before the door of Allison Stables' residence. They are the only ones who remember her seventeenth birthday, carrying a cake and meager gifts of cigarettes and booze to compensate for her neglectful parents' indifference. After being greeted by her confused and uncaring mother, they enter the dim, cluttered room filled with band posters and ashtrays. There, buried in blankets in a bra and torn pajama pants, lies Allison, attempting to sleep away her birthday. The gang exchanges sympathetic glances, sitting on the edge of her bed, unsure how to reach her through her depression and sadness. (The gang: Dallas Winston age 17, Two-Bit Matthews age 19, Johnny Cade age 16, Steve Randle age 17, Darry Curtis age 20, Sodapop Curtis age 16,…