Sal's Point of View

Although I feel it is a little early for me to form an opinion on whether or not I enjoy the novel, I am starting to dislike On The Road already. My reason is this, the novel is told in the first person point of view, Sal’s point of view. Jack Kerouac writes Sal’s thought process in a way that is abstract, short, and distracted. He explains a moment in time with little detail and quickly moves on. This makes every day in Sal’s life seem small and unimportant. Perhaps this is a realistic view of life, where no moment should hold anymore importance than another, but in the novel he is moving on a storyline and what he writes about must hold some significant or else telling the story would be pointless. I feel that every part of a story should progress the story line along, and I do not necessarily feel like Jack Kerouac does that. I feel that Kerouac is losing me as Sal moves along. I am even starting to lose my attachment to Sal. Dean is also starting to lose his importance in the story. He is the reason Sal leaves and yet he is barely contributing to Sal’s travels and experiences. I’m not grasping the point of Sal’s adventure and what he is learning. It might be because I’m reading the book in sections and when I return to the novel I forget what happened in the parts before. Hopefully the next section will make me like the story again.