Response to Emily

I agree that Kerouac has a talent to making women nothing but a sex object of which men can get temporary pleasure from, only to discard them and trade them later on as if they were broken toys. But as you were saying, this book is characterized by mindless behavior and making stupid mistakes because of a lack of experience and knowledge that they are even doing something wrong. As for Dean and Marylou, they are the kinky weird couple who love and hate each other and are fine seeing the other be happy with someone else as long as they come back to one another in the end. For example when Dean wanted Sal to do it with Marylou just to see what she was like with someone else. Obviously that isn’t something most people would want, but this book is about just going with it and doing dumb things without thinking twice because thinking twice is sometimes the evil factor behind regrets.