What kind of person is Dallas Winston in The Outsiders?

Dallas Winston is the toughest and most dangerous of the
greasers in the S. E. Hinton teen novel, The Outsiders. Dally grew
up on the streets of New York, where he was involved in gang activities and was arrested
several times--the first at the age of 10. The Tulsa police are also familiar with
Dally, for which he is somewhat proud; he has just gotten out of jail when the novel
begins. He has no family in Tulsa, and his only true friend among the greasers is
Johnny; the rest of the boys put up with him, though they like having his fists in gang
fights. His greatest love is horses, and he jockeys on occasion. Good looking and
blonde, Dally is immediately attracted to the Soc, Cherry Valance, and despite his bad
behavior toward her, she tells Pony that she could fall in love with Dally. To Johnny,
Dally is like a character out of Gone with the Wind: a Southern
aristocratic gentleman. When Johnny dies, life is no longer worth living for Dally; he
robs a store, waves an unloaded pistol at the pursuing police, and is shot dead in the
street--not an unexpected end for the wildest character in The
Outsiders.