The style of Jack Kerouac is the most interesting part of his work. There is some symbolism, in a few works, specifically when he passed out in the latrine and was urinated on in On the Road. However, his style was realistic and used a minimal amount of symbolism. The actual writing, the pace of words led Truman Capote to refer to him as a “typist, not a writer.” This Benzedrine fueled writing leads him to Dickinsonian sentence structure-hyphens galore-Kerouac new how to end a sentence-by not ending it-his Faulknerian/Dickinsonian sentence structure enabled the reader to catch up to his addled, rattled mental condition only to be surpassed by his verbosity and narration. Kerouac labeled this style Spontaneous Prose (http://www.wordsareimportant.com/kerouac.htm);

he even came up with a set of guidelines for this spontenaity:

1. Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for yr own joy
2. Submissive to everything, open, listening
3. Try never get drunk outside yr own house
4. Be in love with yr life
5. Something that you feel will find its own form
6. Be crazy dumbsaint of the mind
7. Blow as deep as you want to blow
8. Write what you want bottomless from bottom of the mind
9. The unspeakable visions of the individual
10. No time for poetry but exactly what is
11. Visionary tics shivering in the chest
12. In tranced fixation dreaming upon object before you
13. Remove literary, grammatical and syntactical inhibition
14. Like Proust be an old teahead of time
15. Telling the true story of the world in interior monolog
16. The jewel center of interest is the eye within the eye
17. Write in recollection and amazement for yourself
18. Work from pithy middle eye out, swimming in language sea
19. Accept loss forever
20. Believe in the holy contour of life
21. Struggle to sketch the flow that already exists intact in mind
22. Dont think of words when you stop but to see picture better
23. Keep track of every day the date emblazoned in yr morning
24. No fear or shame in the dignity of yr experience, language & knowledge
25. Write for the world to read and see yr exact pictures of it
26. Bookmovie is the movie in words, the visual American form
27. In praise of Character in the Bleak inhuman Loneliness
28. Composing wild, undisciplined, pure, coming in from under, crazier the better
29. You're a Genius all the time
30. Writer-Director of Earthly movies Sponsored & Angeled in Heaven