Choose a novel or short story in which there is a character who experiences rejection or isolation. With reference to appropriate techniques, explain the rejection or isolation, and discuss how this aspect adds to your appreciation of the text as a whole

"Jack Kerouac's novel On the Road is a text which portrays the pitfalls of the American Dream through the figure of Dean Moriarty, who exists in society as an unemployed and volatile delinquent, yet through who's life and shared experiences with Sal Paradise allows us to see the emptiness and social isolation of the economically and socially marginalised of the American post-war/cold war era.