Sal himself finds countless women including Terry and Lucille who he has a chance to be happy with and start a family the way society tells us we should but he leaves them behind. On page 124 Sal says “I was willing to marry her” referring to Lucille but instead he decides to take off with Dean again and head West. With Terry, he seems genuinely happy and they tell one another that they love each other but in the end, Sal has to leave back for New York because he is broke and can’t support the two. Instead of finding work and fighting to be with Terry and her son Sal decides that …show more content…
While he faces a lot of hardship and is constantly hungry Sal understands that his happiness does not lie within what society tells us it should be but instead in the world around us and everything is has to show us. Sal goes against cultural norms and lives the way he wants to live and not how other tell him to in order to find true happiness in the sad world around