Pony means that Randy seems haggard because of the recent events.
Randy is a Soc who was a friend of Bob, the boy that Johnny killed when the Socs attacked him and Pony in the park. Like Cherry, Randy does not fit the mold of what most Socs are like. He is more reflective and conscientious.
Randy goes to visit Pony after he gets out of the hospital, to apologize for everything that happened and...
Pony means that Randy seems haggard because of the recent events.
Randy is a Soc who was a friend of Bob, the boy that Johnny killed when the Socs attacked him and Pony in the park. Like Cherry, Randy does not fit the mold of what most Socs are like. He is more reflective and conscientious.
Randy goes to visit Pony after he gets out of the hospital, to apologize for everything that happened and tell him he doesn’t want to fight in the upcoming rumble between greasers and Socs.
He was seventeen or so, but he was already old. Like Dallas was old. Cherry had said her friends were too cool to feel anything, and yet she could remember watching sunsets. Randy was supposed to be too cool to feel anything, and yet there was pain in his eyes. (Ch. 7)
When Pony compares Randy to Dallas, he means that Randy has been aged by experiences and not by years. He is prematurely old because of the suffering he has endured recently. Randy is a fighter too, on the Soc side, and now he is tired of fighting. He is tired of the constant violence.
"I'm sick of all this. Sick and tired. Bob was a good guy. He was the best buddy a guy ever had. I mean, he was a good fighter and tuff and everything, but he was a real person too. You dig?" (Ch. 7)
Randy tells Pony that Bob’s parents spoiled him, and that because they let him get away with everything he never faced consequences and that is why he got himself killed. Bob drank too much and caused fights. He pushed things too far and paid for it. Randy admits that what happened to Bob was brought on by his drunken chaos. That doesn't make it easier to accept.
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