The second stage is when he goes on his trip to Testament, Virginia to visit his brother's house in the Holidays and Dean suddenly appears at the house and they resume their trip. They drive to New Orleans and stay at Old Bull Lee's house, where they are surrounded by alcohol and jazz sessions. The trip comes to an end when he heads back to New York. The third stage is when he goes to Denver to reach Dean, when he reaches him they want to go to New York and find someone that needs a Cadillac to be driven to Chicago. They take the car and when they finally arrive to Chicago, they board a bus to get back to New York. The fourth stage is his final trip. Sal, as Amazon puts it: "one of Kerouac's alter egos" (Amazon), decides to go to Denver by himself and finds Dean again, they take off on their final journey to Mexico, for Dean wanted a cheap divorce. This is the craziest trip they ever had; it included liquor, drugs and prostitutes, when they finally get to Mexico City, Sal gets sick and Dean abandons him to go back to marry Inez in New York. In the fifth and final stage, Sal has recovered from his sickness and heads back to New York, while he is here, he runs in to Dean again. On this encounter, they are not as close as they used to be on the trips, Sal has different priorities and realizes that Dean is basically mad and egocentric. The story ends up with the author or Sal Paradise, making a reflection on America after all the experience he has obtained through his journeys:.
So in America when the sun goes down and I sit on the old broken-down river pier watching the .
long, long skies over New Jersey and sense all that raw land that rolls in one unbelievable huge.
bulge over to the West Coast, and all that road going, all the people dreaming in the immensity of it. .
(Kerouac 307).
What does one expect to happen to the protagonist as the story develops? As one reads and sees all the things going on, you do not know what will happen to the protagonist Sal Paradise.