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* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: 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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* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Ed Dunkel's wife Galatea 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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It was ''finally'' [[Film/OnTheRoad adapted into a movie]] in 2012 -- the earliest attempt to adapt it was to have starred a young Creator/MarlonBrando.
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It was ''finally'' [[Film/OnTheRoad adapted into a movie]] in 2012 -- the earliest attempt to adapt it was to have starred a young Creator/MarlonBrando.
Creator/MarlonBrando. The film stars Creator/GarrettHedlund, Creator/SamRiley, Creator/KristenStewart, Creator/AliceBraga, Creator/AmyAdams, Creator/TomSturridge, Creator/DannyMorgan, Creator/ElisabethMoss, Creator/KirstenDunst, and Creator/ViggoMortensen.
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''On the Road'' is a 1951 novel by Creator/JackKerouac. It is considered to be the masterwork of Creator/TheBeatGeneration, along with ''Literature/NakedLunch'' and ''Literature/{{Howl}}.'' The narrative takes place between 1947 and 1950. The book was not published until 1957.
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''On the Road'' is a 1951 novel by Creator/JackKerouac. It is considered to be the masterwork of Creator/TheBeatGeneration, along with ''Literature/NakedLunch'' and ''Literature/{{Howl}}.'' ''Literature/Howl1955''. The narrative takes place between 1947 and 1950. The book was not published until 1957.
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Not to be confused with Cormac [=McCarthy=]'s ''Literature/TheRoad''.
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** DepravedBisexual: 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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It is semi-autobiographical and relates events from the time Kerouac spent spent traveling and occasionally hitchhiking from coast to coast. However, because of legal reasons, the main character is actually an AuthorAvatar named [[SquatsInAName Sal Paradise]] who is a [[PerpetualPoverty semi-impoverished]] writer and recent divorcé. It also details his friendship with the [[TheMadHatter increasingly crazy]] Neal Cassady (whose name has been changed to Dean Moriarty) and other writers of the Beat Generation such as Creator/WilliamSBurroughs and Creator/AllenGinsberg who also show up with different names.
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It is semi-autobiographical and relates events from the time Kerouac spent spent traveling and occasionally hitchhiking from coast to coast. However, because of legal reasons, the main character is actually an AuthorAvatar named [[SquatsInAName Sal Paradise]] who is a [[PerpetualPoverty semi-impoverished]] writer and recent divorcé. It also details his friendship with the [[TheMadHatter increasingly crazy]] Neal Cassady (whose name has been changed to Dean Moriarty) and other writers of the Beat Generation such as Creator/WilliamSBurroughs and Creator/AllenGinsberg who also show up with different names.
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** DepravedBisexual: 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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* HomoeroticSubtext: 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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* FormerTeenRebel: [[spoiler:In the end, Dean becomes this, deciding to go back to San Francisco and rebuild his relationship with Camille.]]
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* HelloSailor: Many of the scenes in San Francisco make passing mention of this.
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* HelloSailor: 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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* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: In the scenes of San Francisco, Sal usually calls it "Frisco", a nickname mostly used by tourists.
