Jack Kerouac Dharma Bums
Page: 90
“I was angry too because Japhy an Morley were afraid to stop ands rest, they said it was dangerous at this point to stop… ‘No, we’ve got to get down to that car tonight’”
On the way back down the mountain everyone was tired and irritable. It was interesting because they were heading back into society, and it seemed like whether they knew it or not that put them in a bad mindset. Even with their own reluctance to continue they seemed afraid to stay away any longer.
Jack Kerouac Dharma Bums
Page: 92
“Japhy thought the place I chose looked too bourgeois and insisted on going to a more workingman-looking restaurant across the highway.”
For all his talk of nothingness and simplicity, Japhy is still afraid to be judged by society. He is put on a pedestal for most of the book, yet when it comes down to it, Japhy is not immune to the pressures to conform to society. He only removes himself from situations where that pressure strongly exist.
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