The main conflict in Chapter 1 is between Pony and the Socs. You can see this from the very start of the chapter. Pony comes out of the movie theater and starts walking home. Then the Socs jump him and start threatening to cut his hair off or to do even worse things to him.
The main conflict in chapter two is considered a "man vs. self" conflict, which concerns Ponyboy's internal struggle to trust Cherry and alter his perception of the Socs. The second conflict is considered a "man vs. man" (or woman) conflict between Dally and the Soc cheerleaders.
The two overriding conflicts are man versus himself and man versus society. Throughout the novel, Ponyboy endures an internal struggle to find out who he is as a person outside of his role in his gang, the greasers. What does pony discover about the SOCS who were in the car? Pony discovers that they were drunk.Mar 20, 2020
