Dean's Driving

"The Road is Life". this famous quote and now cliched metaphor is the memo by which many people live their life. If the road truly is life, then dean really is a prophet.gliding soundlessly for 30 miles without any gas, swiveling and swerving perfectly in control. Despite this being a seemingly 1st person narrative, there is a direct and flawlessly constructed metaphor of dean driving Sal around on the road of life. despite Dean's amazing and breathtaking technique, he driveds almost exclusively a beater. the car is run ragged, destroyed and battered along the way, a casualty of Dean's reckless "driving". Towards the end of their journey, gas money runs low, and they rarely have a full tank. they constantly are worrying about the lack of gas in their tank, but they carry on, always just making it, either by stealing it of off of someone else's money.