Blogtrotter: Jack Kerouac's "On the Road (The Original Scroll ...

At the end of the American road, is a man and a woman making love in a hotel room. That's all I wanted." (278) But, he finds rejection by her and he must wander more. Meanwhile, in Book Three, "once again I wanted to get to San Francisco, ... Her great dark eyes surveyed me with emptiness and a kind of chagrin that reached back generations and generations in her blood from not having done what was crying to be done..whatever it was, and everybody knows what it was. ...