Well, Johnny and Ponyboy don’t feel like they had fitted into the novel. They had felt like other people won’t listen to them or had abusive parents. A example could be when Johnny’s mom had visited him in the hospital and seemed like she didn’t care about him. On the other hand Ponyboy had thought that his older brother didn’t like him, but at the end it was not true. I hope this helps.
I’ve been waiting for an Outsiders question. PB&J (Pony and Johnny) didn’t really fit in with the other greasers. The weren’t as tough as the others a often chose to see the good in a bad situation. No one really understood them. For example the only people Pony can really talk about sunsets with is Johnny, Cherry, and maybe Soda. And Johnny wasn’t understood by his parents and could only be himself with Ponyboy and the gang. I hope this helped.