Sal seems nonchalant and to the point" i first met Dean not long after my wife and i split-up. I had just gotten over a serious illness that i wont bother to talk about, except that it had something to do with the miserably weary split-up and my feeling that everything was dead" I can almost imagine the sound of his voice; dry with a touch of passion for life's madness. This interest is most evident when he talks about Dean. It seem as though for the first time in a while there was something new, something to wonder about. at this point i assumed that his feelings of everything being dead was alleviated or perhaps gradually subsided and this was why there was such an interest in Dean.
I could be completely wrong seeing as i have never heard of the book until now and have never even read the synopsis on the back of the book but i can say from my experience and others that were shared with me ; when you feel empty you look for someone or people that have that something you feel you don't. I also assumed this from his description of Dean as " a young Gene Autry-trim , thin-hipped, blue-eyed, with a real Oklahoma accent-a side burned hero of the snowy west." The comfort that he felt when he talked about Dean led me to believe he that he was reliable in the right circumstances for instance if h had to defend a friend.
I continued to analyze him; a man with an insatiable appetite for what i call life's idiosyncrasies wouldn't want to hold onto that dead feeling he briefly mentioned so for him to try and escape by surrounding himself with individuals would be considered a normal coping- mechanism. but the fact that the individuals were as he put it" mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time" would prove him to be mad as well. As the old saying goes "birds of a feather flock together."
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