How we cite our quotes: Citations follow this format: (Part.Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #31
"I got wife and kid - ain’t got a money - I see." His sweet polite smile glowed in the redness as we waved to him from the car. Behind him were the sad park and the children. (IV.5.58)
Now Sal is able to identify sadness without reason; the park isn’t sad because of distance or solitude – it is sad because it is there.
Quote #32
Occasionally a dim light flashed in town, and this was the sheriff making his rounds with a weak flashlight and mumbling to himself in the jungle night. Then I saw his light jiggling toward us and heard his footfalls coming soft on the mats of sand and vegetation. He stopped and flashed the car. I sat up and looked at him. In a quivering, almost querulous, and extremely tender voice he said, "Dormiendo?" indicating Dean in the road. I knew this meant "sleep."
"Si, dormiendo. "
"Bueno, bueno" he said to himself and with reluctance and sadness turned away and went back to his lonely rounds. Such lovely policemen God hath never wrought in America. No suspicions, no fuss, no bother: he was the guardian of the sleeping town, period. (IV.5.6-IV.5.8)
Sal connects the sadness of the policeman with his loneliness.
Quote #33
The girls yammered around the car. One particularly soulful child gripped at Dean’s sweaty arm. She yammered in Indian. "Ah yes, ah yes, dear one," said Dean tenderly and almost sadly. (IV.6.15)
For Dean, sadness is wrapped up in the intensity and purity of young girls. It is interesting to see this moment of sadness in contrast to his previous sexual impulses towards young girls.