On the Road Title

Main character Sal Paradise spends about, oh, let’s see…99.9% of his time traveling on the road. And the other 0.1% of the time he’s wishing he could be on the road. On the surface, the title describes exactly what’s going on, but if you want to get all English-majory, you could say it also describes Sal’s ethos and the ethos of the whole Beat Generation that Kerouac represents with this book: their restlessness, dissatisfaction, longing for something and somewhere else. Sal is continuously trying to find somewhere else to be from his current position. It is an addiction that he cannot get rid of and it is obvious that he never will until he finds his ultimate goal: the ability to write again and I believe its going to take a long time before he gets his "power", if you will, back.