Sal

      I have given up on On The Road, and more so than before. Good ol’Sal and Dean are as awful as they before, and honestly the whole group acts as stupidly as the last time they drove cross country. No one has learned from anything, and even during the few times that Kerouac shows the reader any development in his characters it just leads to more disappointment in their actions. Though I feel that we got to understand Mary Lou and actually see her character develop it did not make me like her any more than I previously did. Kerouac still represents women as inferior and disposable characters, not to mention the fact that Dean had tried to get Sal to have sex with Mary Lou while he watched. So far the strongest female character we have met in the book as been Bull’s daughter who claims, "look at the silly men!" when watching the boys play in their back yard.  
      Carlo seems to have moved on from the group and is no longer interested in their life style. He is much more mature from when we last saw him. He is now living in his own apartment and eventually kicks the group out once he becomes annoyed and bothered by their messiness and fighting.

      What I found incredibly amazing and laughable was the fact the Bull Lee, a man whose life purpose is to experiment and test out different types of narcotics, finds Dean crazy. There’s as saying that “someone will always be better than you are” but I think Dean is the most insane person in existence and considering his history I can’t really blame him.

      Though Sal annoys me constantly and I find almost all of actions prime examples of stupidity, I also feel bad for him. He seems very lost and disenchanted from the world he lives in, and I think this is something that everyone can connect with. It makes sense for Sal and Dean to constantly be on the road, where you don’t have to look back or deal with consequences. Dean obviously wasn’t ready to be a father so he left Camille and traveled cross country to avoid the responsibility. Sal has been disappointed a lot, we all saw his optimism when he first decided to travel cross country in the beginning of the novel.