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How did Ponyboy describe the difference between the Socs and Greasers?

In chapter 3, Ponyboy, a Greaser, and Cherry, a Soc, are walking to pick up a car so that the boys could take them home after going to a movie. At first, as he talks with Cherry, Ponyboy is thinking how similar Greasers and Socs must be if the girls are typical Socs. He begins to think that maybe the only difference between them is money.


Cherry, however, thinks it is more than money and speaks of how differently the two groups act and think. Ponyboy then considers that the difference is not really money but that the difference between the two groups is tied up in emotions and feelings. According to Ponyboy, Greasers and Socs are different because:



"[Socs] don't feel anything and [Greasers] feel too violently"



The two discuss how the Socs are always so busy striving to gain more things that they have no room left for feelings. By comparison, the Greasers, Ponyboy thinks, always have it so much tougher, always wanting for more and so they feel things much more intensely.

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