Third Post

As Sal carries on with his nomadic adventure of following Dean, he starts realizing that Dean is not that loved character he thought. Dean started off being liked by everyone because he was so fun and easy going and he did not worry about the little things. The problem is, in the end, it is the little things that matter. Towards the end of their journey, Sal is brought into these sort of Anti-Dean conversations in which everyone has something bad to say about Dean or they have a list of complaints about him that they want to get off their chest. Mary Lou is a good example because out of everyone, she would be the one people thought would stay by Dean’s side, but even she loses interest in his unsettled life, as well as the fact that she is somewhat of a nymphomaniac and puts her physical desires before her emotional ones and even considers leaving Dean for Sal at one point. Another example is when Galatea and Camille and everyone else confront Sal and tell him that Dean is no good for him, and anyone who sticks around Dean and is loyal to him gets hurt, because Dean is incapable of prioritizing correctly and he is selfish with what he wants because he does not care who he throws under a bus to get it. It gets complicated for Sal though because he has a passion for Dean. He enjoys being with Dean and living like him. This is a problem because Sal starts to take Deans personality qualities and becomes someone people won’t like in the future because, like Dean, they’ll get tired of his selfishness and inability to put others before himself when necessary. The treatment of women has been touched on before, but it can be a reoccurring example because Sal learns to be this player with the women from his observational learning with Dean in which Sal sees it works, Dean gets women, so if he does the same then he will get women as well. In the end, Dean’s old friends leave him and it becomes Sal and Dean against the world. This is somewhat of a good thing for Sal because he finally has the quality alone time with Dean he has been yearning for since the beginning and now, instead of following him around, they make plans together and even decide to go Italy. That beautiful plan for their future is of course destroyed by Dean being careless again and wasting all his money and coming up with another scheme to go to Mexico. This is an eye opening trip for Sal because on this journey is where he finally realizes how much of a selfish person Dean really is. After Sal gets Dean out of trouble by saying he’s his “brother”, Sal is proud to be able to say that, and realizes he loves Dean in a brotherly way. It is nott until later though that Dean leaves Sal in Mexico incredibly sick so he can go and chase a girl back to the states, and what is sad is that even though Sal sees the true carelessly evil nature in Dean, he can’t help but want to stay by his side.