Like Ciara, I see how Sal is growing increasingly restless. I had thought that the length of his stay with Remi and getting a new job as a policeman, no matter how much it didn’t fit him, would signal that he was getting ready to settle down. Yet like Ciara said, Sal ends up getting tired of one place and wants to keep traveling, certain he will be satisfied at the next location –then, the cycle starts all over again.
While I do think Remi is a mess at the moment, I feel that he is more of a caring ‘gentleman’ that Sal’s other friends. This is probably because Remi is someone from Sal’s actual past, from before the two even got married. In addition, it is interesting because it marks the first time that Sal and one of his friends actually have genuine affection for each other.
I like how Ciara mentions that Sal may not know what he is looking for himself, and that Denver was never his final destination as he just keeps heading West to search for the false promises. Like she said, he is already in California, the farthest West, yet he is still unsatisfied. I feel that he has gotten used to the idea of moving out when things aren’t to his liking; it seems that he’s chasing someplace where he can have fun, be daring and support himself, yet he may never find it. There are times when he stops to stare at the vast land in front of him, leading me to think that maybe he is just on the road for the sake of being on the road.
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