Sal started off following Dean because he looked up to Dean
as a role model and as the perfect figure of what he wants to be like and how
he wants to live his life. He gave up all he had basically to join Dean’s
little entourage and to have the adventure of his life to find his true self
and maybe some more meaning in his seemingly boring and unimportant life.
Through Dean, Sal has gained many new friendships and memories, visited new
places and tried new and different things. Safe to say, Dean has given Sal’s
life a whole new look, but it has not been a walk in the park. The struggle Sal
has to go through to live like Dean is ridiculous, and even more ridiculous
that Sal keeps going back to it. The lack of money and food, the constant worry
of where they’ll sleep, and the never ending desire to be nomadic when they
have no money or means of transportation.
It seems to me that the more people Sal meets and befriends,
the more people get tired of Dean and start hating him. It’s understandable,
the reason why people hate Dean. Dean
was everyone’s idol at first, at least all the men’s idol. The women, the
partying, the adventurous life, the reckless behavior with no single care left
behind him; the bachelor man’s dream. Now things have changed. People have
grown tired of him and his ways. His family even decided to get rid of him and
his father completely and eliminate them from any family affairs. People know
that if Dean is coming, trouble is following him. Everyone is now rejecting
Dean’s company, everyone except for Sal. Sal has even come to a point where he
sees how much Dean means to him and how much he means to Dean. Dean has found a
way to push everyone away one way or another, but never Sal. Sal sees that he
is all that Dean has left. Marylou left him, Camille hates him, his family took
him out of the family itself, his friends don’t want to see him anymore, Sal is
the only company he has. I thought it was a defining moment in their friendship
when Sal said that Dean was his brother, and I think that they have now
realized they are the most important people in each other’s life.
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