Sal And Dean Meet In New York City Summary

This novel takes place in America during the 1940s. Sal and Dean meet in New York City where they both live until their travels start. The city is a loud and extravagant place to live. Sal and Dean are no strangers to city life full of drinking, music, and sex. In addition to New York City, the two friends also travel to other cities such as Denver, San Francisco, San Antonio, Chicago, and Mexico City. Within cities, Sal and Dean have an appreciation for Jazz music in club after hours where they cross racial barriers into African American culture. Outside of the cities, much of the novel takes place on the roads of America as Sal and Dean drive cross country. The highways of the time resembled more of small back roads nowadays.
Plot:
Sal is a fictional young writer in New York City based on author Jack Kerouac. The novel follows Sal and Dean's adventures across America. Sal is often seen as an onlooker of Dean's exploits. Dean is adventurous and reckless in his adventures. Sal admires Dean a great deal for his personality and actions. Dean is a womanizer and throughout the novel, he gets married three times and has kids. Sex is an important and necessary part of Dean's life and he often tries to set Sal up with different women. Sal on the
Kerouac is represented by the character Sal and Cassity is the character Dean. The two took five trips across the country in a time span of three years just like the novel shows of Sal and Dean.
Comments:
This novel is told form the first person perspective of Kerouac. The novel is told in the form of a conversational story. Kerouac is telling his readers about his own adventures. The text and events in the novel move at a fast pace as Sal and Dean rush across America. Kerouac found the faster pace to be more exciting and entertaining than slowly telling the story in painfully slow description. Instead, he told his story as he lived