Fear and Loathing Chapter 9 - End

I found the end of the book to be quite inspiring and surprisingly fitting to the end of the book. It was almost as if the story finally made sense after hundreds of pages of nonsense about a drug abusive author barely making it by. The time when I realized the story’s main point was in chapter 12 pg. 191, where Bruce asked Duke how he found the American Dream he was looking for. Duke replied with “‘we’re sitting on the main nerve right now. You remember that story the manager told us about the owner of this place? How he always wanted to run away and join the circus when he was a kid? Now the bastard has his own circus, and a license to steal, too.”’ Therefore in response to your question I believe the very short version of the moral of the story would be: The American Dream is exactly that, a dream. People dream of having their own business, doing something with their lives, achieve some great goal they have in mind that would make the whole of the their life seem worthy. But the reality of the American Dream is when people put pen to paper, hard work and sweat into the dream and pursue it to make it a reality. That hard work and ingenuity that has sprung up from a single idea, a single dream, is what makes America a sort of promise land. People can pursue their ideas without being held back by racial barriers or gender barriers. People are just treated as people and are given the same chance as anyone to make a change in this world, even if it’s the smallest of change. And sometimes, it takes a psychedelic drug filled adventure full of fear and loathing to envision the true American Dream.