Topical Guide 948
Mark Dorset
Popular Culture: Pulp Fiction: Stock Characters: Hoods and Bad Girls
Leaving Small’s Hotel, Chapter 25:
From a distance, he looked like a hood from my school days. (If you were not around during my school days, reader, you may not know that hoods were bad boys, or boys who wanted to be mistaken for bad boys. They were a school generation ahead of my school generation; the style was already fading by the time I reached high school. Hoods wore black jeans and white T-shirts. […] )
See also:
Popular Culture: Movies: College Comedies TG 688; Pulp Fiction: Stock Characters: Bad Girls TG 688; Its Power to Amplify Fads, Trends, and Passions TG 699
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