I thought that these two most recent chapters were the most revealing in the novel so far. Sal is constantly moving until these two chapters. Narration is entirely to communicate the plot of the novel and the physical feelings of hunger and fatigue of the narrator. When these chapters arrive, we glimpse a feeling of melancholy that is existant in every "beat" within this novel. When Sal questions the woman with Carlo Marx, she says that all that she wants to do is "wait tables and get along." The sadness that results is both the first time that narration is used to communicate serious emotions, implicating that her sentiments are also those of Sal. While he may wish to just "get along," all of Sal's actions contradict this lifestyle as is evident in the fight adjacent to the opera (representing a clash between order and chaos) and his life on the road in the first place. It was my impression that Sal feels hopeless about his lifestyle, yet he is unable to break the cycle of endless wandering and searching for a better existence?