Darryl Curtis

Ponyboy's oldest brother. Darrel, known as “Darry,” is a twenty-year-old greaser who is raising Ponyboy because their parents have died in a car crash. Strong, athletic, and intelligent, Darry has quit school. He works two jobs to hold the family together. He is six-feet-two and strongly built and appears older than twenty. He is described as having dark-brown hair like his father but unique, piercing. (You/Ponyboy: He is fourteen, quiet, sensitive, and contemplative. He likes reading books and going to see movies by himself. He is very smart in school, but Darry does not think Ponyboy has enough common sense.)