Eccedentesiast In S. E. Hinton's The Outsiders

An eccedentesiast is someone who hides behind their own smile; was Dally Winston, the bad hood boy, from S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders fit Charle C. Finn’s poem about being an eccedentesiast? S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders is about a group of close friends called Greasers going against rich, stuck up Socs, while Finn’s poem is about not revealing your true feelings and emotions around you, from the fear of not being accepted or understood. Dally fits Finn’s poem for two reasons, he hides whatever his true feelings may be from his gang to keep his reputation, and not showing a mutual love for Johnny, where it is evident there is.
Dally is always putting on a cool and tough persona around his gang and friends. Pony explains to us that dally is considered to be the most “hood” in

When Johnny and ponyboy are talking in the Tasty Freeze, Dallas Winston admits some of his feelings by saying (Hinton 75) “ Shoot, my old man don't give a hang whether I'm in jail or dead in a car wreck or drunk…”, since Dallas doesn’t have anyone to love or care for him, he seems to replace those figures with caring for someone in the same situation, Johnny. Later on in this conversation, Dally reveals ever more emotion by saying, (Hinton 76) “ "you get hardened in jail. I don't want that to happen to you. Like it happened to me…” Dallas wanted to help Johnny not become like him, hardened and tough. In summary, Dally Winston from S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders fits Finn’s ideas from “Please HEar What I’m not Saying”, he hides his true emotions from his gang in fear that he will not be accepted in his group for not being as tough as he puts on, and doesn’t show his true car and worries for Johnny. Dally Winston is an example of almost everyone in the world that has acted tough when they’re really hiding