Comment on Pedro's Post

       First I want to mention how much I enjoyed the structure of your comment, it was very clear and easy to read. Second, I want to mention how much I agreed with what you said about Dean. Dean has become insane. His life is even less based on reason, and I feel like he is living his life on a high that is going to and has to break eventually. I also want to mention how from the beginning of the novel I have been disgusted by Kerouac’s representation of women, which he has painted woman as being incredibly immoral and fake. But I think that we’re all starting to better understand Kerouac’s purpose in writing On the Road. We’re not really supposed to like any of his characters, and instead we are supposed to hate them and see the faults in them. Kerouac is so deeply associated with the beat generation not because of his support for them, but because of how realistically he represented them, and in the end Kerouac is very messed up. He took this generation that saw themselves as a group that refused to be apart of the norm, and saw this as a positive, and turned their ideas and beliefs sideways. Kerouac who himself was apart of the beat generation reflects on their opinions not in a positive attitude, but instead scorns them for their imperious beliefs. I also want to mention that I disagree with your view of Dean, and that I still really dislike him. Even though he is more entertaining, I find him to be an absolutely awful person that I wish didn’t exist.