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Kerouac's ON THE ROAD.(Jack Kerouac)(Brief Article)(Critical Essay)
From: The Explicator
Date: 20010622
Author:KING, DOUGLAS H.
Little notice has been taken of F. Scott Fitzgerald's influence on Jack Kerouac. Yet Kerouac's novel On the Road, from the opening to the final pages, contains a stream of events and words that parallel The Great Gatsby. Sal Paradise says on page 3 of On the Road, "I first met Dean not long after my wife and I split up." Nick Carraway, supposedly "engaged to a girl out west" (Fitzgerald 24), had also ended a serious relationship. Their stories begin when both narrators meet new people. For Paradise, "the coming of Dean Moriarty began the part of my life you could call my life on ...
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