Dean Moriarty
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Dean Moriarty is one of the protagonists in Jack Kerouac's novel On the Road. Dean Moriarty is based upon the beat generation hero Neal Cassady.
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[edit] Character Information
Dean was born in Salt Lake City, Utah and grew up in Colorado with an alcoholic and hobo for a father for whom he searches on many occasions. Dean races from journey to journey and pulls other people along. His various fixations include drugs, women, intellectualism and finally, his father and family life. His marriages to and divorces from Camille and Mary Lou as well as his affair with Inez are a few examples of his romantic entanglements.
On the Road is semi-autobiographical, and Dean Moriarty was inspired by a close friend of Jack Kerouac, Beat hero Neal Cassady.[1]
[edit] In popular culture
- Dean Moriarty is the subject of the Aztec Two-Step song, "The Persecution & Restoration of Dean Moriarty (On the Road)."
- In Alan Moore's The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Black Dossier, Moriarty appears in a Sal Paradyse story, which suggests that Dean is the great-grandson of Sherlock Holmes' arch-nemesis Professor Moriarty. The story has Sal and Dean teaming up with Mina Murray and Allan Quatermain against Kerouac's Doctor Sachs (who is the great-grandson of Moriarty's criminal rival The Devil Doctor), and he also participates in a threesome with Mina and Allan.
- Dean Moriarty is also an alias of Benjamin Linus on Lost, as shown on one of his possibly fake passports during the Feb. 14, 2008 episode, "The Economist." Ben uses this name when he visits Tunisia in the episode "The Shape of Things to Come."
- In the novel Move Under Ground by Nick Mamatas, Kerouac mentions Dean Moriarty.
- Luke Danes is called Dean Moriarty in the "Say Goodbye to Daisy Miller" episode of Gilmore Girls.
- Dean Moriarty is the name of Alex Russo's boyfriend in the Disney Channel series Wizards of Waverly Place.
- 'Hello Dean Moriarty' is a song by Scottish rock band Orko Which can be found on their debut album, 'Creating Short Fiction'
- Johnny Moriarty, the singer of the Camden Town-based doo wop n roll band Medicine Show, took his name from Dean Moriarty.
- Dean Winchester in Supernatural is named after Dean Moriarty and the series creator mentioned the influences of the book.
[edit] References
- ^ Bignell, Paul (July 29, 2007). "On the Road (uncensored). Discovered: Kerouac "cuts"". The Independent. http://arts.independent.co.uk/books/news/article2814743.ece. Retrieved 2007-08-02.
