On the Road, by Jack Kerouac, is an honest story of a friendship, and four trips across America. The narrator is Sal Paradise, an aspiring novelist who lives with his aunt in New Jersey. Sal’s best friend is Dean Moriarty. Sal idolizes Dean for his laidback cowboy style, his ease with women, and his all around joy in living. Over the course of the book, Dean marries, divorces, makes love to, and impregnates numerous …showed first 75 words of 545 total…

…showed last 75 words of 545 total…understanding. The women these two “crazy cats” involved themselves with definitely had it rough. Although they weren’t abused in the traditional sense, they were neglected, cheated on, and treated as if they were invisible. Does this make Sal & company particularly bad people? It does not seem their intentions were negative, more so they were just naïve, and caught up in their spiritual and emotional quest. Regardless, they should have exhibited more responsible behavior.