The Outsiders - Ponyboy/Johnny

About this episode

This episode explores the question of romantic feelings between Johnny and Dallas in S.E. Hinton's The Outsiders.

In October 2016 a reader asked S.E. Hinton on twitter whether there were “any romantic feelings” between the characters Johnny and Dallas from The Outsiders . S.E. Hinton responded with: “No. Where is the text backing this?” In this essay we will… Follow the show on Tumblr at ltbkpod.tumblr.com

Topics covered

• romantic feelings
• The Outsiders
• character analysis
• S.E. Hinton
• literary discussion

Keywords

• S.E. Hinton
• The Outsiders
• Johnny
• Dallas
• romantic feelings

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: The Outsiders

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