Cherry Valance Characters

It may seem like it but, Cherry Valance isn’t all that perfect. Although she is fearless and rebellious, she has a two-faced side to her, that many don’t realize. However, Cherry does become very useful to one of many social groups, the greasers, as she betrays her own social group, the socs. Throughout the book, S.E. Hinton shows Cherry’s “not so perfect” side and how things are “rough all over” for everyone, not just for the greasers. Cherry Valance isn’t always what she seems, or what some might call, two-faced. Throughout the book, Cherry makes friends of whom she really isn’t supposed to have, and yet chooses to be friends with them. After a while, though, Cherry betrays her friendships, and tells ponyboy “If I don’t say ‘hi’ at school,
Cherry isn’t afraid to speak her mind and make her opinion heard. In the book, Cherry repeatedly stated “I hate fights, I can’t stand em’ ” and refused to stand for the violence. Time after time Cherry stopped fights by voicing her opinion on how violence wasn’t the solution to anything. When Cherry isn’t standing up to violence, she’s falling hard for the bad boys. Her rebellious taste in boys, such as Bob and Dally gets her in lots of bad situations. In the book, she leaves Bob because of his drinking habits and ends up accidentally leading the boy’s into a fight (to which she stops.) In the book, Cherry also falls for Dally, after he repeatedly said nasty things to her. Cherry tells Ponyboy “If I see that Dallas Winston again, I’ll fall in love with him.” showing her bad boy taste in relationships. Cherry Valance may be fearless, but her taste in boys may start some trouble. Throughout the book, Cherry grows as a person, gains friends, losses relationships, and gain some good and bad traits, but in the end, she leaves the gang by themselves with no support from Cherry. I think Hinton was showing Cherry as one of those “hit and run” type of friendships, that sometimes friends will leave you by yourself, only to teach you independence with