dbums 9

Dbums 9

Kerouac
p.202
“Life’s already shoved an iron foot down my mouth.”

Despite how happy Ray usually says that he is, here he says that he has had a bad life. This really surprised me, since he always seems so happy and carefree. It seems that he has not had that many bad things happen to him, and he has dealt with then easily.

Kerouac
p.210

“ ‘I know something good’s gonna come out of all this!’ ‘All what?’ ‘I dunno--- out of the way we fell about life.’”

In this quote, Japhy seems to doubt their way of life. He is trying to reassure himself that he has not been living like this for nothing. It is kind of like a midlife crisis. He is about to go to Japan, and is trying to reassure himself that this is the right way of life.