This myth is also present in a story told by Kerouac's character, Sal Paradise, in On the Road).
But there was something else about the narrator, Sal Paradise, that made me identify with him, something in the sad undertone of the novel that is finally its core.
The protagonist, Sal Paradise, at one point keeps an apartment there and drinks in its bars.
Unlike Holden Caulfield, Sal Paradise is struggling with getting through adolescence and maturity rather than delaying it.
We saw these exact issues in Holmes's definition of the Beat Generation as a whole, of which Sal Paradise becomes the metaphorical face.
Like Sal Paradise, the narrator of Kerouac's "On the Road," they identify with those who burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow Roman candles.
The work's inspiration is Jack Kerouac's "On the Road," whose hero is named Sal Paradise.
Dillon contributed his voice as the narrator, Sal Paradise, in an audiobook version of Jack Kerouac's novel On the Road.
"Sal Paradise," I said, and heard my name resound in the sad and empty street.
The English band The Crookes wrote a song called Sal Paradise, which appears in their second album "Hold Fast" (2012).