On the Road On the Road, by Jack Kerouac was considered to be the first “beat” novel. The lifestyle of beats is explained as going against mainstream norms. The two main characters in the novel Dean and Sal both go against normal society. On the Road was written during a time when mainstream society was in to materialistic possessions. The average person was concerned with having a good paying job and raising a family in …showed first 75 words of 852 total…

…showed last 75 words of 852 total…By doing this it makes Dean and Sal look bad to the normal woman. Dean and Sal are not willing to settle down with just one woman. At this time it broke all the rules of conventional society to be with more than one woman. Sal and Dean did not care they believed that sex was the greatest thing and one could just have sex and not worry about a relationship or starting a family.