I agree with Lauren I think the women are treated unfairly. Recently, all the men have been treating their women unfiarly. Ed Dunkel according to Sal, married Galatea for her money and later on ditched her, and Dean has left Camille and their daughter in San Francisco. Sal is more sympathetic to women, he said somewhere (I do not remember the page of the quote) that, "the world will never find peace until men beg their women for forgiveness." However he was flirting with Marylou while Lucille was watching. But, sal said that Lucille only likes him the way she wants him and he does not really want to change just for her. But like Lauren said he was talking about settling down and finding someone to marry but he is sometimes saying that he will not find anyone to marry him because he is not good enough. This guy needs some more confidence otherwise he will make people think like he does, that he isn't good enough for anyone else.

Also, when Sal was talking about his dream with and an Arabian figure pursuing him across the desert of life and trying to catch him before we reach heaven, he said, "Naturally now that I look back on it, this is only death: death will overtake us before heaven. The one thing that we yearn for in our living days, that makes us sigh and groan and undergo sweet nauseas of all kinds, is the remembrance of some lost bliss that was probably experienced in the womb and can only be produced (though we hate to admit it) in death." (124) For some reason this quote really hit me, I really liked it even though it is really depressing, it is really deep. I "dig" it, dude.