Angela Shepard Character Analysis

Angela is Bryon’s ex-girlfriend and Curly and Tim Shepard’s sister. Bryon describes Angela as very beautiful, with long, dark curls—but also as very bitter and mean. He explains that their relationship largely consisted of making out or fighting, and very little else. Just prior to the events of the novel, Angela broke up with Bryon in order to pursue Ponyboy Curtis. After he ignores her advances, she convinces to attack Curtis at a party—but Mark steps in, and the kid hits him over the head with a bottle. This fight results in Mark needing 10 stitches in his head. Mark enacts revenge by finding Angela when she’s drunk, plying her with more alcohol until she passes out, and cutting off her hair while she’s unconscious. Angela then gets her brothers to retaliate by beating up Bryon severely, illustrating how violence causes more problems than it solves because it usually results in an unending cycle of getting even.