Is Neal actually mental insane?
WHy does Louane come with Neal?
Where they ever happy on the Road?
Did Jack find himself?
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Book cover
Neal Cassady & Jack Kerouac
City of Denver
First Edition
Map of USA
Jack Kerouac
Original Scroll
Image of Original Scroll courtesy of Cornel's library website
the road
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Neal is mentally insane. There are youtube videos of him talking with Allen Ginsberg, and he's about middle-aged and there's this crazed look in his eyes. He talks with this weird inward conviction, as if he's trying to convince this estranged part of himself. He appears detached through out the whole conversation, even though Allen is one of his closest friends.
I don't think we have quite enough insight into Louanne's character, but Prasour did her research paper on women of the beat generation, and a lot of the female beatnicks (similar to the men) were lost in the conformity of 1940s and 50s household values.
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