an be attributed to his buddy, Dean Moriarty. Dean is described as a young Gene Autry – trim, thin-hipped, blue-eyed, with a real Oklahoma accent – a side-burned hero of the snowy West'. We obtain both a strong vision from this description, that Dean is a modern American cowboy, side-burned and given the image of a young version of the cowboy singer/actor Gene Autry. We also get the first sense of how America itself moulds people into the people they are seen as (where they are from, what accent they have) and potentially the way they see themselves to be. The fact that Dean is associated with a movie actor and singer much associated with the West reveals the cycle of creating characters based on real life people, and then real people being associated with created characters. It is this notion of optimism through the unknown that is the main driving force. By giving up ‘home’ and all its securities it would seem anything could happen, but many of the characters, especially Sal, would believe that some prices are worth paying and all the greatest things they can imagine are waiting out there, somewhere in America, to be discovered. 'Home I'll never be, (OTR 240). There are great differences between Sal and his traveling friends from the rest of the people he encounters. The people who exercise the right to move elsewhere at the drop of a hat could be said to be the ‘why not’ people, as opposed to the ‘why’ people. The ‘fag’ and the ‘tourists’ in the ‘effeminate’

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