Like Philip, I believe that the split between Terry and Sal was inevitable -but not because they are completely different people, rather because the directions both are going towards are different. I felt that while it is true the two do not come from the same background, Terry and Sal are alike in the sense that they are both free, independent people. Both live in the moment, and are wanderers just looking for some place to be happy and support themselves. However, in the end, Sal is not looking to be tied down and Terry knows she has family to attend to; for this reason, I feel that both recognized it would not work out and agreed to separate, just as Philip said.
I also felt like Sal enjoys the road the most. He often bonds in the strangest of ways with the people he encounters, and I think that it is the idea that they are also wandering towards somewhere else that keeps Sal interested in meeting them. However, I do not particularly think that Sal misses Dean and Carlo until the end of Chp. 14; while he is with Terry, Sal even mentions that he completely forgot about the East and his ‘gang’. It is only at the end, when he is feeling depressed and sorry for himself as Philip said, that Sal is reminded once again of Dean. Additionally, like Philip, I also feel that once Sal gets back on his feet, he will hit the ground running and attempt to once again meet up with Dean ‘on the road’.
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