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the escape from an American consumer culture of the postwar period
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as it is a story about the absolute immersion in a culture of consumption.
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So, what Sal Paradise consumes on the road extends from pie,
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as I demonstrated to you by the multiple references,
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the simple food that the body needs and wants; to girls,
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all the women that he tries to sleep with and that Dean tries to sleep with
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over the course of the novel;
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to money and the consumer goods that come with it in order to
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build a middle-class American life with his aunt in New York
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--remember he buys the icebox, the first electric icebox of their family,
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the first refrigerator of their family,
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when he comes back from his first road trip