Dallas Winston Character Analysis

Characters change throughout the course of many books. Some may change physically and some may change emotionally. Other characters may change the reader’s thoughts of a character. Dallas Winston can be an example of that. Dallas Winston can be called many things. Some call him a hood, others can call him a hero. Throughout S.E. Hinton’s novel The Outsiders, Dallas Winston faces problems that change a reader’s perspective on him. In the beginning of the novel, Dallas Winston who is also referred to as Dally, is a troublemaker and a hood. Dally can be used as an example of the label “greaser” which is a very big stereotype. Dally is portrayed as a criminal who breaks all the rules and jumps people. He also “hated to do things the legal way”.