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On the Road

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On the Road	comment	Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })On the Road is a 1951 novel by Jack Kerouac. It is considered to be the masterwork of The Beat Generation, along with Naked Lunch and Howl 1955. The narrative takes place between 1947 and 1950. The book was not published until 1957.It is semi-autobiographical and relates events from the time Kerouac spent traveling and occasionally hitchhiking from coast to coast. However, because of legal reasons, the main character is actually an Author Avatar named Sal Paradise who is a semi-impoverished writer and recent divorcé. It also details his friendship with the increasingly crazy Neal Cassady (whose name has been changed to Dean Moriarty) and other writers of the Beat Generation such as William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg who also show up with different names.The original manuscript was written in one long scroll with no paragraph breaks whatsoever. It was finally published as "The Original Scroll" in 2007, restoring many references to sex, people, drugs, crime, and the relationship between Neal Cassady and Allen Ginsberg, which were all censored when the book was first published.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })On the Road has had a huge influence on modern culture with such personages as Bob Dylan, Jim Morrison and Hunter S. Thompson, among others, citing it as an inspiration. It is also considered one of the quintessential American Road Trip Plot novels, but then again, so is Lolita.Peculiarly for the "quintessential American road novel", an abortive first draft of the novel was found among Kerouac's papers... written in his native Quebecois French.It was finally adapted into a movie in 2012 — the earliest attempt to adapt it was to have starred a young Marlon Brando.Not to be confused with Cormac McCarthy's The Road.
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On the Road / int_2dff6b95	comment	Two Guys and a Girl: Dean, Sal and Marylou. A calmer version of the trope: Dean wants Sal to have Marylou after the road trip and insists on watching them have sex to see how well they get along, but Dean just isn't really into it. Although he goes through with it, he would rather spend quiet time with Marylou alone. When it's decided that Dean and Marylou will continue their relationship after the journey, Sal doesn't mind.
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On the Road / int_2ed5e99d	type	Depraved Bisexual
On the Road / int_2ed5e99d	comment	Depraved Bisexual: Dean is a hedonist and a user, and it's never clear if he's just using any of his partners.
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On the Road / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
On the Road / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: Sal and Dean part on fairly tense terms, but Sal has good memories of their adventures and Dean decides to reconcile with Camille and their young daughters and be a better husband and father.
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On the Road / int_4885c04b	type	Road Trip Plot
On the Road / int_4885c04b	comment	Road Trip Plot: This book is often considered one of the great road trip novels of all time.
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On the Road / int_4f4372e9	type	Early-Installment Weirdness
On the Road / int_4f4372e9	comment	Early Installment Weirdness: The above mentioned Original Scroll draft is also notable because none of the names have been changed.
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On the Road / int_60200c6	type	Former Teen Rebel
On the Road / int_60200c6	comment	Former Teen Rebel: In the end, Dean becomes this, deciding to go back to San Francisco and rebuild his relationship with Camille.
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On the Road / int_6056f853	type	Homoerotic Subtext
On the Road / int_6056f853	comment	Homoerotic Subtext: Just how attracted Sal is to Dean remains ambiguous, but they do share an intense bond and share women. Even in its earliest, heavily censored edition, the novel's same sex content was groundbreaking.
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On the Road / int_66755d29	type	Author Avatar
On the Road / int_66755d29	comment	Author Avatar: Sal Paradise is Jack Kerouac. Also, Dean Moriarty is fellow Beat writer Neal Cassady, Old Bull Lee is William S. Burroughs, and Carlo Marx is Allen Ginsberg. Kerouac uses avatars in virtually all of his novels, although for legal reasons, the names are changed from book to book. As a result, in The Dharma Bums, Kerouac is named Ray Smith, and in The Subterraneans, he is named Leo Percepied.
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On the Road / int_6bd7b49a	type	Spicy Latina
On the Road / int_6bd7b49a	comment	Spicy Latina: Averted, one chapter discusses how Sal briefly dated and lived with a Mexican waitress in California, but she doesn't have any stereotypical personality traits.
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On the Road / int_7d89315b	type	"The Reason You Suck" Speech
On the Road / int_7d89315b	comment	"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Ed Dunkel's wife gives one to Dean in one of the later sections of the book, pointing out that he basically just uses people for money and fun and then tosses them aside. She also calls him out for his behavior towards Camille, especially the fact that’s he’s leaving her to deal with two kids alone with little money.
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On the Road / int_8470aa73	type	Roman Ã Clef
On the Road / int_8470aa73	comment	Roman à Clef: Loosely relates the random travels of Kerouac during a period of his life. All the names were changed, but many famous beat writers appear, and the book is said to have defined the The Beat Generation.
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On the Road / int_9858c391	type	Chick Magnet
On the Road / int_9858c391	comment	Chick Magnet: Dean gets with multiple women and marries three times. He does change in the end, however.
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On the Road / int_98b5f82b	type	Basement-Dweller
On the Road / int_98b5f82b	comment	Basement-Dweller: Well, Sal still lives with (and sometimes off) his aunt. When he is home, that is.
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On the Road / int_a07afea2	type	Random Events Plot
On the Road / int_a07afea2	comment	Random Events Plot: Pretty much the whole book is driving from one city to the next and recalling what happened. Later Kerouac books follow much more conventional plot structures.
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On the Road / int_a7850fbf	type	Only Known by Their Nickname
On the Road / int_a7850fbf	comment	Only Known by Their Nickname: In the scenes of San Francisco, Sal usually calls it "Frisco", a nickname mostly used by tourists.
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On the Road / int_bff82d59	type	CrazyHomelessPerson
On the Road / int_bff82d59	comment	Crazy Homeless Person: To an innocent bystander all the main characters can seem this way. Although, there are actual homeless people... who may or may not be crazy but are, at the very least, slightly unhinged.
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On the Road / int_caa28b82	type	Cloudcuckoolander
On the Road / int_caa28b82	comment	Cloudcuckoolander: Dean. So. very. much.
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On the Road / int_db2f3581	type	All Girls Want Bad Boys
On the Road / int_db2f3581	comment	All Girls Want Bad Boys: Camille and Marylou for Dean.
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On the Road / int_e2f5760	type	House Husband
On the Road / int_e2f5760	comment	House Husband: Because of a series of almost comically timed and very karmic events... Dean
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On the Road / int_e41b191f	type	Nude Nature Dance
On the Road / int_e41b191f	comment	Nude Nature Dance: Dean (of course) and in the middle of the desert no less. Also, Sal and Marylou sit naked in the front seat of a car with Dean (again!) at one point.
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On the Road / int_e582b201	type	Hello, Sailor!
On the Road / int_e582b201	comment	Hello, Sailor!: Many of the scenes in San Francisco make passing mention of this. Justified due to the time this book was written, San Francisco had two major military bases along the outskirts of the city in Treasure Island and The Presidio.
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On the Road / int_e6b5d22f	type	Catchphrase
On the Road / int_e6b5d22f	comment	Catchphrase: "Yes!"
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On the Road / int_ed6d2a0a	type	The Mad Hatter
On the Road / int_ed6d2a0a	comment	The Mad Hatter: Dean. He's so uninhibited that, when seeing him running naked through the desert, people have thought that he was a hallucination. "Yes!" Slim Gaillard, who has the tendency to append the word "ooroni" to the end of his words.
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On the Road / int_f9f2c33	type	Running Gag
On the Road / int_f9f2c33	comment	Running Gag: Dean's "dirty" (as in pornographic) deck of cards in the later part of the book. It first shows up when Sal visits Dean while he's living in New York. Later, Dean takes it out at a Denver party and says he can tell fortunes with it. It's mentioned again in the last section when Dean says he used it to play cards with men on the trains he hitched.
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On the Road / int_fa6bfde9	type	Have a Gay Old Time
On the Road / int_fa6bfde9	comment	Have a Gay Old Time: Subverted. Gay is occasionally used to mean happy but many chapters, especially those in San Francisco, mention "queers" very clearly derogatorily referring to gay people.
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On the Road / int_ffb1df90	type	Perpetual Poverty
On the Road / int_ffb1df90	comment	Perpetual Poverty: Sal and his friends especially when on the road and often otherwise. However, they usually manage to scrape by.
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