When looking back on the reading, I found that Ciara was right; the narrator seems to simply state everything as short facts. He relates what he does, but does not explicitly elaborate on what effect it had on him or any personal opinion outside of the immediate basics. For example, in the incident Ciara mentioned in which the narrator reads Montana Slim’s card to his father, the narrator notes how his perception of Slim alters, yet he does not elaborate on whether this change caused him to behave or interact differently with Slim; instead, the narrator just states the perception change and moves on to discussing how they picked up two girls. Yet the fact that he includes small anecdotes and seemingly insignificant incidents such as these represent, as Ciara said, what the narrator finds important and remembers from his trip to the West.
I also agree that the narrator has a fixation on wild, interesting people; in my opinion, the narrator finds a muse in people like Dean due needing inspiration as a writer. However, I find that though the narrator is intrigued by vigorous people, he is specifically interested in Dean; he claims to go West to reunite with the gang in Denver, but when one of them, Chad, comes to pick him up, the narrator is disappointed. His initial excitement at arriving to Denver wanes after not immediately seeing Dean; instead, he becomes intensely preoccupied with wondering where Dean is and spends the first day thinking about Dean’s past.
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