A review by tabsfchnr
Maggie Cassidy by Jack Kerouac

3.0

It's a book about young love. Jack falls in love with the beautiful Irish Maggie, but doesn't know what to do with himself and struggles to understand her as they both flicker through feelings of lust, longing or abandonment. Both with more youth and choices on their hands than they can handle, it never settles. Jack moves off to become a big-shot writer in New York, before (at the very end of the book) returning to "claim" the teasing, endearing, painful Maggie that had before "evaded" him, only to realize/ expose he has become heartless and vulgar. The romance had disappeared, leaving a sour aftertaste of nostalgia and self pity. He refers to himself, Jack, in this last chapter as only "the garage-man", indicating his own disapproval of what he had left behind and what he had become.