It was the novel that many of the people who formed the center of the 1960's in the United States read. It was a striking rebellion against what society was still pretending was the right way to live, but that immense numbers of people could see clearly was not right for them and probably never had been. The Vietnam War and the Cold War that followed made the novel’s influence bigger since the Unites States seemed to refuse to learn the lesson. Life was unpredictable and people lived faithful to that philosophy. A young American looking for a big adventure after the war would find hard not to be impressed by a novel like "On the Road".
But life kept going. People grew and changed. Now "On the Road" is regarded as a historical novel just like