At school Ponyboy and Johnny are seen as a lower class and people not to mix with. Even though they are both nice boys Cherry and Marcia cannot associate with them as Cherry tells Ponyboy “I mean… if I see you in the hall at school or someplace and don’t say hi, well it’s not personal or anything, but… We couldn’t let our parents see us with you all.”. At school both Ponyboy and Johnny are socially isolated from the other students just because they are Greasers. A further example of this is how society automatically blames the Greasers for bad things that happen and perceives them all as menacing hoodlums. This is displayed when Pony tells the reader “We look hoody and they look decent. It could be just the other way around – half of the hoods I know are pretty decent guys underneath all that grease, and from what I’ve heard, a lot of Socs are just cold-blooded mean – but people usually just go by looks. The gang is clearly isolated from society as they are all viewed as criminals. Consider Darry, he had a bright future ahead of him Mr popular at school, captain of the football team and even won a scholarship to college but because he is a Greaser and therefore does not have much money he could not go to college, lost friends and became stuck as an outsider of society as a Greaser. This is particularly apparent when he