(OUTSIDERS)
What is significant about
the last sentence of the
novel?
Why?

The last sentence in the novel is also the first sentence of the novel.

When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home.

Explanation:

Chapter 5, page 77:

"The mist is what was pretty," Johnny said. "All gold and silver."

"Uh," I said, trying to blow a smoke ring.

"Too bad it couldn't stay like that all the time."

"Nothing gold can stay." I was remembering a poem I'd read once.

"What?"

"Natures first green is gold,

Her hardest hue to hold.

Her early leaf's a flower,

But only so an hour.

Then leaf subsides to leaf.

So Eden sank to grief,

So dawn goes down to day.

Nothing gold can stay."

Johnny was staring at me. "Where'd you learn that. That was what I meant."

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