Dally begins to talk about his ex-girlfriend, Sylvia, and Ponyboy thinks about the girls that socialize with the greasers. Ponyboy decides that he and Johnny will go to a double feature at the drive-in with their friend Dally.
The brothers and the other greasers make plans for the following night. Darry starts to scold Ponyboy for walking home alone instead of calling for a ride, but Sodapop tells him to stop nagging. Ponyboy's brothers and the rest of their group appear on the scene and chase away the Socs. The Socs begin to beat up Ponyboy, who screams for help.
One of them asks, "Need a haircut, greaser?" and pulls out a blade. The Corvair pulls up beside Ponyboy and five Socs climb out and surround him. He quickens his pace as he remembers how badly the Socs beat his friend Johnny Cade. As he walks, he notices a red Corvair trailing him. Ponyboy returns to the story of his solitary walk after the movies. Ponyboy feels great affection for his sixteen-year-old brother, Sodapop, whose charm and cheerfulness he admires. Despite his intelligence, Ponyboy lacks common sense, which frustrates Darry. He is strict with Ponyboy and often yells at him. Twenty-year-old Darry acts as head of the family. Ponyboy's parents died in a car crash, so the three Curtis brothers live together by themselves, an arrangement possible only as long as they stay out of trouble. Ponyboy says he does not participate in typical greaser mischief because his oldest brother, Darrel (known as "Darry"), would kill him if he got into trouble. They often carry switchblades, mainly to help them stand their ground against the Socs. They dress tough, steal, and get into gang fights. Greasers wear their hair long and put grease in it. Ponyboy says that greasers are poorer and wilder than the Socs, whom the newspapers condemn one day for throwing parties and praise the next day for good citizenship. When they walk by themselves, greasers attract the harassment of Socials, or Socs, the rich West Side crowd. Ponyboy steps back from his story to explain that walking alone is unsafe for greasers, the East Side gang of friends to which he belongs. He also thinks that, although he likes to watch movies alone, he wishes he had company for the walk home. He thinks about how he wants Paul Newman's good looks, though he likes his own greaser look. Ponyboy Curtis, the narrator, begins the novel with a story: he is walking home one afternoon after watching a Paul Newman film, and his mind starts to wander.
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