Dean Changing Again

Dean is more than the "Holy Con Man" or the "Holy Goof". still, that is what he will always be remembered as for many. somewhere, deep below the drugs, thew philosophy, and the insanity, he is a real-live person. Later on in Dean's life, he tells one of his disciples to never do what he is doing. in a strange, alien sense, he has lost his family, maybe just by being dealt a bad hand. his father was "eccentric" at the least from the eyes of his family. at the end of his life in society, they gave up and wanted nothing to do with them. Dean was cast away along with his father, and he seems horribly distraught at the fact. when dean meets with his cousin, Dean seems excited and relieved, but his cousin seems less than thrilled. to me, this is the most underrated "scenes" in the entire book. for me this seemed transformational. instead of a holy figure, for a second, dean is the man who built his house on sand. an imperfect idol, Dean will always be the holy con man, even though he died alone, on the train tracks of mexico. quietly and sadly.