Which detail best supports the thesis that the narrator has conflicting feelings about himself?
Read the passage from the novel The Outsiders.
When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the
darkness of the movie house, I had only two things on
my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home. I was wishing
I looked like Paul Newman—he looks tough and I don't
--but I guess my own looks aren't so bad. I have light
brown, almost-red hair and greenish-gray eyes. I wish
they were more gray, because I hate most guys that
have green eyes, but I have to be content with what I
have. My hair is longer than a lot of boys wear theirs,
squared off in back and long at the front and sides, but
I am a greaser and most of my neighborhood rarely
bothers to get a haircut. Besides, I look better with long
hair.
O "When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the
darkness of the movie house, I had only two things
on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home."
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O "I was wishing I looked like Paul Newman—he looks
tough and I don't—but I guess my own looks aren't
so bad."
O "have light brown, almost-red hair and greenish-
gray eyes."
O "My hair is longer than a lot of boys wear theirs,
squared off in back and long at the front and sides,
but I am a greaser and most of my neighborhood
rarely bothers to get a haircut."
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