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All the women in Dean's life call him to the carpet
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and tell him of all his sins.
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That's a sad moment in the novel,
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a moment of difficulty, a moment of specificity also.
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What else is sad?
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It's sad when Dean leaves Sal feverish in Mexico.
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He's off.
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He has his girls to chase, his wife to go back to, to divorce,
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whichever one is which.
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He has all of these machinations to attend to.
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The friendship between the two, in the end, doesn't seem to mean very much,
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or, at least in that moment it doesn't seem to mean very much.