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**Dallas Winston**
Dallas Winston, aka Dally, was a true gallant, desperate, and loving hero. He was acted like a tough guy on the outside with no emotion and nerves of steel, but on the inside he was a caring compassionate person that loves his gang. There was one person that he loved more than anyone and that was Johnny, the pet of the gang. There was one flaw that Dallas Winston had though... He had nothing to live for because of his lack of family.

Dally was a gallant hero in almost everyone's eyes, but most to Johnny Cade. "Yeah... in the manners bit, and the charm, too, I guess," Johnny said slowly, "but one night I saw Dally gettin' picked up by the fuzz, and he kept real cool and calm the whole time. They was gettin' him for breakin' out the windows in the school building, and it was Two-Bit who did that. And Dally knew it. But he just took the sentence without battin' an eye or even denyin' it. That's gallant." (pg.65) Johnny was the only one that could see how Dally really was on the inside, and I guess Dally somehow sensed that. I think that's why he loved Johnny the most out fo the the rest of the gang.

Dally may have been a true hero, but he was also a desperate one too. Desperate literally means "reckless because of despair", and he was in despair because he didn't have family, and he needed one badly. Johnny was the only person that Dally had developed true feelings for, and when he dies Dally became reckless and had nothing else to live for, so he robbed a grocery store just so the cops would chase him. When they caught up to him he pulled out a unloaded gun, but the cops didn't know that so they shot him where he stood. Ponyboy even said, "Dally didn't die a hero. He died violent and young and desperate, just like we all knew he'd die someday." (pg.131)