External Expectations In The Life Of A Greaser
External expectations play a big role in the life of a greaser. Things such as appearance, speech, and behaviour. Things such as clothes, hair, skin, and features, influence their first impression. People make first impressions to decide wether they want to be in the presence of someone or not.
The most common bearing of a greaser is long hair, with hair oil or grease in it (hence their name ‘Greasers’). The status quo for Greasers is that they are impecunious, meaning that they can’t afford expensive clothing, people judge them on the clothes they wear, and their hairstyle.
Generally, when one see’s someone who is well dressed and neatly looking, they are more likely to go to that person, and make an effort to know them. Being well dressed …show more content…
Greasers don’t speak with proper punctuation or dictation, they also use slang regularly. This is a main component in the public judging their education, and wealth. “ They were the only kind of girls that would look at us, I thought. Tough, loud girls who wore too much eye makeup and giggled and swore too much” (pg.35). When people see a Greaser, they think things, like they’re not law abiding, they’re hopeless, they have no future. All because of the way a few of the greasers act. So, because of a stereotype that most greasers, speak with slang, and curse language, people believe that none of them are smart, like a mob rather then a group of individuals. The way a greaser acts around Socials or regular people of society, is different then the way Greasers act amongst their close friends, and other Greasers. Society, and
Social’s have their own stereotypes and views on the way Greasers act, they think that because some Greasers act one way, that all of them do.
“Greasers are almost like hoods; we steal things and drive old souped-up cars and hold up gas stations and have a gang fight once and a while.” (pg.3). In this quote rather then Ponyboy saying that greasers do something, he says we. This is because even society viewing greasers
The most common bearing of a greaser is long hair, with hair oil or grease in it (hence their name ‘Greasers’). The status quo for Greasers is that they are impecunious, meaning that they can’t afford expensive clothing, people judge them on the clothes they wear, and their hairstyle.
Generally, when one see’s someone who is well dressed and neatly looking, they are more likely to go to that person, and make an effort to know them. Being well dressed …show more content…
Greasers don’t speak with proper punctuation or dictation, they also use slang regularly. This is a main component in the public judging their education, and wealth. “ They were the only kind of girls that would look at us, I thought. Tough, loud girls who wore too much eye makeup and giggled and swore too much” (pg.35). When people see a Greaser, they think things, like they’re not law abiding, they’re hopeless, they have no future. All because of the way a few of the greasers act. So, because of a stereotype that most greasers, speak with slang, and curse language, people believe that none of them are smart, like a mob rather then a group of individuals. The way a greaser acts around Socials or regular people of society, is different then the way Greasers act amongst their close friends, and other Greasers. Society, and
Social’s have their own stereotypes and views on the way Greasers act, they think that because some Greasers act one way, that all of them do.
“Greasers are almost like hoods; we steal things and drive old souped-up cars and hold up gas stations and have a gang fight once and a while.” (pg.3). In this quote rather then Ponyboy saying that greasers do something, he says we. This is because even society viewing greasers