Johnny compares Dally to the gallant southern gentlemen in Gone With the Wind because Pony makes it clear that Johnny worships the ground Dally walks on.
He in a non-homo way LOVES Dally. Dally is his idol. So when the book describes the gallant (brave, heroic) men, Johnny uses Dallas as an example, because that is how he sees him.
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Dally's death was gallant because he felt bad for Jhonny
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It was on pg. 76. "I bet they were cool ol' guys,"he said, his eyes glowing, after I read the part about the riding into sure death because they were gallant.
when johnny and ponyboy were held up in that church they read gone with the wind and johnny was talking about how brave those southern gentlemen were. ponyboy meant that when johnny saved those little kids he was much braver then them.
Well, according to the book and the characters in it, even Dally was a hero and was gallant (according to Johnny because of one of his deeds), but I don't think that Bob/Robert did anything that could classify him as gallant. So, he wasn't a hero.