In chapter twelve of S.E. Hinton's novel The Outsiders, Sodapop receives a returned letter that he had written his girlfriend Sandy, who has gone to Florida. Sandy returned the letter unopened. Apparently, though Hinton is vague on this topic, Sandy had gone to Florida because she was pregnant. When Sodapop dashes out of the house, he drops the letter and Darry picks it up. In a short conversation, Darry tells Ponyboy that Sandy didn't seem to love Sodapop as much as he loved her. In fact, it seems that Sandy had become pregnant by someone other than Sodapop ("it wasn't Soda"). Despite that, Sodapop still wanted to marry Sandy, "but she just left." Throughout the story, Ponyboy had taken for granted his middle brother's carefree and boisterous attitude. In this chapter, he realizes that Sodapop had problems just like everyone else and, in the end, the three brothers' relationship is strengthened as they begin to understand each other in a more mature way.
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