On The Road Dean Mariarty Analysis

In Jack Kerouac’s novel, On The Road, main protagonist Dean Moriarty symbolizes an "almost" immortal flame of youth that embodies the rebellious generation of uncertainty that describes 1950s Beat culture. Desirable of everything at the same time, from his numerable fixations with drugs, his incalculable romantic entanglements with women, or his superficial preoccupation to be seen as an intellectual, we get to know Dean's liberating and pioneering personality as the "Holy Goof" as well as an apparent figure of Beat culture. Though it is not until a series of passages at the commencement of the novel that the "crucifixion" of Dean Moriarty's youth takes place, forcing upon him a revelation; forcing him to relinquish his naive, rebellious ways into a life of real uncertainties and real problems.
“Who’s old? I’m not much older than you are!”
“I wasn’t saying that, man!”
"Ah,” I said, “you’re always making cracks about my age. I'm no old fag, you don't have to warn me about my kidneys"…I said to cap my anger, "And I don’t want to hear any more of it.” And suddenly Dean’s eye grew tearful and he got up and left…Dean stood outside the restaurant for exactly five