The outsiders why does he call his mother "golden? "

Pony remembers his mother as "beautiful and golden, like Soda, and wise and firm, like Darry." But there are no similarities between Pony's mom and Johnny's mother. Johnny's mother and father argue constantly, and their hostility spills over into violence toward Johnny. His father often beats him, and his mother shows him no love or attention whatsoever.

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as for symbolic actions, the narrator's tearing down the wallpaper in an attempt to find the "woman" in the wallpaper represents her struggle to retain or regain her sanity.   the wallpaper has been part of her confinement and by her tearing it down, she is freeing herself from that confinement.