Part two term paper

The second characteristic of the “road” lifestyle is the ability to shirk responsibility without consequence. The best part about doing something capricious and immoral is not getting caught afterward. The allure of doing something bad and not getting caught is the one of the primary factor for people to continue engaging in nefarious activities. To glorify this nomadic lifestyle, Jack Kerouac made Dean Moriarty untouchable. His bad deeds came almost explicitly without consequence.  Dean Moriarty was the master of irresponsibility and immaturity, and Sal was slowly influences by the action of Dean towards all of the women in his life. Marriage is, of course, an extraordinary commitment. It requires the understanding, by both parties, of monogamy and care, both fiscally and emotionally. Dean Moriarty in the beginning of the novel had a beautiful wife named Mary Lou. She was the envy of all of Dean’s friends, and she was madly in love with him. Later on in the novel, Dean decided to cheat on Mary Lou with a girl named Camille. He kept them both in the same hotel, in different room. Dean would travel from one room to the other, sleeping with each girl and then leaving immediately after to see the other. Not only did Dean go on for several months without getting caught, his friends actually condemned him for it. They idolized his inappropriate and hurtful behavior toward women. They talked about it in great detail, and to continue the ridiculous trend of glorifying the emotional abuse of women, they actually philosophized about it together. Dean and Carlo Marx decided while discussing one night that it was the right thing to do. Then, when Dean was finally caught cheating, both Camille and Mary Lou actually degraded themselves and forgave him. A second example of Dean incredibly unpunished irresponsibility was his abandonment of his daughter and wife. Camille, after dating Dean for a while, got pregnant out of wedlock. Dean married her, and stayed with her during the entire length of her pregnancy. Then barely a few months after his daughter was born, he left. He realized that he was bored of married life, and that he missed his ex-wife, Mary Lou. So Dean hitchhiked, and made his way back to Mary Lou, and even though she even that he abandon both his wife and child, she took him back. He left Camille without a penny, and he was never punished for it. Then, when he came crawling back to Camille after Mary Lou came to her sense, and realized that she could never truly have all of Dean, she left him. Camille then took Dean back after he cheated on her, and abandoned her and her child. Jack Kerouac made the female character moral weak, to make the male character seem superior. Also by making the female character’s weak, it made it easy for Dean and Sal to get away with their actions, because they knew that no matter what they do, the females feel that they “need” them, so they take them back.