On the Road Sex Quotes

How we cite our quotes: Citations follow this format: (Part.Chapter.Paragraph)

Quote #67

Dean went there and of course he was all sweats and joy at the sight of them, especially Janet, but I warned him not to touch her, and probably didn’t have to. The woman was a great man’s woman and took to Dean right away but she was bashful and he was bashful. She said Dean reminded her of the husband gone. "Just like him - oh, he was a crazy one, I tell ya!" (III.6.19)

Dean repeatedly lusts after very young girls, perhaps because of an attraction to youth itself.

Quote #68

Dean immediately took over the responsibility of selecting and naming the price of the car, because of course he wanted to use it himself so as of yore he could pick up girls coming out of high school in the afternoons and drive them up to the mountains. (III.6.21)

Sex is the motivation for many of Dean’s actions.

Quote #69

There were a lot of Mexican girls too, and one amazing little girl about three feet high, a midget, with the most beautiful and tender face in the world, who turned to her companion and said, "Man, let’s call up Gomez and cut out." Dean stopped dead in his tracks at the sight of her. A great knife stabbed him from the darkness of the night. "Man, I love her, oh, love her . . ." We had to follow her around for a long time. She finally went across the highway to make a phone call in a motel booth and Dean pretended to be looking through the pages of the directory but was really all wound tight watching her. I tried to open up a conversation with the lovey-doll’s friends but they paid no attention to us. Gomez arrived in a rattly truck and took the girls off. Dean stood in the road, clutching his breast. "Oh, man, I almost died. . . ."

"Why the hell didn’t you talk to her?"

"I can’t, I couldn’t . . ." (III.6.32-III.6.34)

Dean’s hesitation with the Mexican girl is reminiscent of Sal’s hesitation with Terry (also Mexican and short). Unlike Sal, however, Dean is unable to speak to her.