How we cite our quotes: Citations follow this format: (Part.Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #61
A few moments later Camille was throwing Dean’s things on the living-room floor and telling him to pack. To my amazement I saw a full-length oil painting of Galatea Dunkel over the sofa. I suddenly realized that all these women were spending months of loneliness and womanliness together, chatting about the madness of the men. (III.2.12)
As the novel progresses, Sal becomes sensitive to the women whose lives are being ruined by the madness of their men.
Quote #62
Dean claimed he no longer needed Marylou though he still loved her. We both agreed he would make out in New York. (III.3.2)
Unlike Sal, Dean is able to distinguish between love and need. For Sal, the need for companionship is often mistaken for love.
Quote #63
I took one last look at Mill City and knew there was no sense trying to dig up the involved past; instead we decided to go see Galatea Dunkel about sleeping accommodations. Ed had left her again, was in Denver, and damned if she still didn’t plot to get him back. We found her sitting crosslegged on the Oriental-type rug of her four-room tenement flat on upper Mission with a deck of fortune cards. Good girl. I saw sad signs that Ed Dunkel had lived here awhile and then left out of stupors and disinclinations only.
"He’ll come back," said Galatea. "That guy can’t take care of himself without me." She gave a furious look at Dean and Roy Johnson. "It was Tommy Snark who did it this time. All the time before he came Ed was perfectly happy and worked and we went out and had wonderful times. Dean, you know that. Then they’d sit in the bathroom for hours, Ed in the bathtub and Snarky on the seat, and talk and talk and talk - such silly things." (III.3.4, III.3.5)
The women in On the Road choose to blame the friends of their husbands and boyfriends for neglect and mistreatment, rather than blaming their own men.