Comment on Meagan's Post

       Meagan this week provides a glimpse at some of the reasoning behind my frustration. Perhaps it is the fact that “Kerouac consistently reminds us that the group is trying to escape the inescapable institutions of family, state and church” that Sal and Dean are unable to ‘pull the trigger’. Perhaps in a structured society there is no capacity for a wildly free human being. But the first images of absolute liberty still haunts my group and I as we are now on our hands and knees begging for any ounce of excitement.

       This week however, Meagan reminds me that there is that possibility that the novel was never about the ‘wild and exuberant life’. Meagan could be right when stating that “the individual is destined to fail”. Could the novel have steered its reader is an entirely different direct purposely as to build the levels of frustration that all of my group members and I are experiencing?

       I do not have the answers to the following question; however, I am fully aware of one thing. The inability of Sal to make a connection with any of my group members speaks volumes. There is a consensus that it is a dreadful experience to have to read about Sal’s fluctuating views on life. He is not behaving as one human being, but rather, quite a few. And it is that very reason that makes me want to close the book right now and dump it in the trash.