For 10 points, what character based on Neal Cassady is a travel companion of Sal Paradise in Jack Kerouac's
A metaphorical knife stabs this character "from the darkness of the night" when he brie᥸y falls for a pretty midget girl at a carnival who later leaves in Gomez's truck. The narrator of the novel in which this man appears re᥸ects that "when I got better I realized what a rat he was." In the novel's ᥸nal sentence, this character's friend says that "in America when the sun goes down," he thinks of this man. This "holy goof," a native of Denver, abandons his best friend in Mexico City when the friend contracts dysentery. This lover of Camille and Marylou drives erratically at high speeds on his many cross-country trips, during which he meets up with Old Bull Lee and Carlo Marx. For 10 points, what character based on Neal Cassady is a travel companion of Sal Paradise in Jack Kerouac's On the Road?
A metaphorical knife stabs this character "from the darkness of the night" when he brie᥸y falls for a pretty midget girl at a carnival who later leaves in Gomez's truck.
Dean Moriarty [accept either underlined portion]