The Outsiders questions

What inferences can you make about Ponyboy's attitude towards genders and gender roles? How do you know this? How does this affect your response to the male and female characters?

How do the female and male characters (including the narrator, Ponyboy) in this passage perceive each other and interact?

The Outsiders was written in 1965 (published 1967) when Susan E. Hinton was 16 years old and attending high school in Tulsa Oklahoma. What historical or cultural factors might have influenced S. E. Hinton as she described the female and male characters in this passage? Give examples.

Considering your own context, how would this passage be different if you were writing it today?