pg .47" 'You've got your man,' said Eddie, but I wasn't so sure about myself. 'I just won't sleep,' I decided. There were so many other interesting things to do."
Even though the author was running out of money, he didn't want to work. He is on the road to experience new things. He didn't come all the way to Denver to work for 14 hours per day.
Question: If the author wanted to see Dean again so much, then why did he talk with him for no "more than five minutes in the whole time"?
I agree that this is an important moment in this set of chapters because it helps us understand better how the narrator wants to spend his time on the road. It is clear that he has no interest in obtaining monetary profit from this trip by working a job he feels no passion for. He is happier to spend his time experiencing what Denver has to offer, even if it means just "getting by" on minimal living conditions. From this, we could say that one component of a road trip in this novel is sacrificing comfort for adventure.
ReplyDeleteQuestion: Why is the narrator insistent that Dean is not a fool despite Major's opinion (which the narrator seems to value) that he is? What is it that draws the narrator to Dean?
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