What kind of relationship did Ponyboy have with the other members of his group?

The relationship that Ponyboy has with the gang of greasers is that they are like a family.

For example:  "Just small bunches of friends who stick together... you take up for your buddies, no matter what they do. When you're a gang, you stick up for your members. If you don't stick up for them, stick together, make like brothers, it isn't a gang anymore. It's a pack. "

The brothers--Darry, Sodapop and Ponyboy--have a genuine love of each other, in spite of Darry and Pony's constant bickering. Johnny Cade, whose parents virtually ignore him (except when his father is beating him), is like an extended member of the Curtis family; the same can be said of Two-Bit Matthews. Steve Randle is very close to Soda, working with him at the same gas station and double-dating as well. Like the Curtis' (whose parents are dead), Dallas Winston lives on his own; he and Johnny are particularly close.  Ponyboy’s relationship with Sodapop is more positive since “Soda tries  to understand” him. Soda also defends Pony. Darry, on the other  hand, is always getting angry and hollering at Ponyboy. He states that  “[Soda’s] always happy-go-lucky and grinning, while Darry’s hard and  firm and rarely grins at all." Darry is most likely this way because he  has gone through a lot being forced to raise his brother’s after the death  of his parents.  Except for Dally, who grew up on the streets of New York and is "as wild as the boys in the downtown outfits, like Tim Shepard's gang," Ponyboy's gang is more of a brotherhood.

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