Mona, I think your strongest point was the third, where you wrote that the book is an example of what society doesn’t want man to do. I discuss a similar point in my post. Dean and Sal challenge almost everything that society has brainwashed us to accept; Dean drinks, experiments with drugs, and does not commit to any single relationship. He also refuses to hold down a job and breaks the law to make his way around. I agree that this is a main theme.
The only point I do not agree with is the first, where you write that Dean can be successful without responsibility. I agree that he seems to be happy behaving as he does, but I also believe that he often feels empty and sad underneath. Dean is looking for clarity and meaning, and at the end of the book he still has not found it.
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