In the film, The Greasers are a gang that will look out for each other no matter what because they are a family. Dallas depicts a Byronic hero by his choices and actions throughout the film. The self-destructive aspects comes from when the character began to lose his mind when Johnny dies and causes a commotion that gets himself shot to death. Dallas is intelligent and perceptive because he helped Ponyboy and Johnny (members of The Greasers) hideout from the police when they accidentally murdered a rivalry gang member. Dallas seems to have a troubled past and suffering from his family which he has no contact with and also because he went to jail. The three aspects he portrays are: 1) having a troubled past or suffering from an unnamed crime 2) intelligent and perceptive and 3) self-destructive. Dallas Winston is the Byronic hero because of the qualities he possesses resonate the most with this archetype. He can have a strong attitude, but he will fight to the death for his gang. Dallas came from New York and seems to have no family other than his gang, the Greasers. The hero that I am focusing on today is Dallas Winston. The Outsiders is a coming-of-age film released in 1983 in which Francis Ford Coppola based on the S.E.
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