Long Island seems to have the best parties. Gatsby, Wolf of Wall
street, On the Road… I was very
excited to get to chapter 4 of part two because we finally got to read about a
large, crazy party. I think this party was the perfect description to describe the
feeling and atmosphere of the era. People were crazy. I feel like Dean and Sal
basically started YOLO. One minute Sal is sleeping with Dean’s girl the next he
is at a party with some other girl and everyone knows that everyone is cheating
and crazy and it just is the way it is. I love it. I feel like nothing has
changed except now all the promiscuous things are done in someone secret and
everyone just talks shit about it afterwards. Not here. Everything is out in
the open and if the wrong person finds out, oh well…they’re just living. I wish
we could live like that in our generation. I think we’re too busy worrying
about what everyone is going to think about every decision we make that it
stops us from living. All the fighting is done in front of everyone and
everyone just accepts it because people make mistakes and people are crazy.
I found it interesting how Damian and Dean didn’t like each other.
They’re too similar so they feel threatened by the other’s presence. I could
say the same about so many girls I know. Often times the girls we “hate” are
the ones we’re most like and I think the real issue lies in competing for the
same validation. It’s all a big contradiction (like Notes from the
Underground).
The last page of the chapter was quite interesting. Dean is sweating
and just going insane but Sal mentions he bought some tea in the city so it
makes me wonder if they are on drugs. Do people have to be on drugs to act that
crazy or do they just not give a f*ck about anyone around them? I love how the
chapter ends because I don’t really understand what he means by, “the moment
when you know all and everything is decided forever” but I love the sound of it
and I think it is a very scary yet comforting feeling to have.
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