Ciara's Reaction to Chapters 5-6

As I read chapters 5 through 6, I started to realize that the narrator tends to say everything in simple terms.  He does not elaborate much on moments, even if they seem to be significant.  On the rare occasion that he does give more meaning to certain situations, they are the simpler, more insignificant occasions.  For example, when he asks the Mexican lady to go out on the town with him and she responds "No, no, I don't", the narrator says that he "loved the way she said it".  I was confused because all she did was deny him a date, and yet he sees so much beauty in this denial.  Also, when he reads the letter Slim writes to his father, his whole view of Slim changed.  The letter is simple and straightforward, but the narrator finds a tender politeness about it.  He grasps onto ideas and situations that others would naturally overlook and gives them so much value and importance, which gives the reader valuable insight on his personality.
In this reading, the idea that the narrator has a fixation on wild, interesting people is reinforced.  As he gets closer and closer to Denver, he does not mention anything about excitement about the actual city; the only thing he mentions (constantly) is his eagerness to join the "gang" in Denver.  The first time the narrator mentions going out West to Denver is after Dean packs up and moves over there earlier in the novel; only then does Denver have any appeal.  The narrator is not heading to Denver looking for a "Promised Land"; he is looking for promised men in the form of Dean Moriarty and the rest of the gang.  He is looking for the adventure and intrigue that comes with tagging along with people full of vigor and excitement, the vigor and excitement his own life lacks.