After his narration of his relationship with Lux we see a woman, probably a nurse, to come into the room and tell him his group meeting is about to start.
He's not happy about his decision to leave Lux after having sex in the field and apparently something went wrong with his life, he doesn't seem the irresistible and arrogant youngman he was when we first meet him.
Any ideas?
I always assumed that he blamed himself for her suicide and that led to his addiction.
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The book doesn't reveal much more as to why he becomes an addict, but from what Trip does say in the novel it seems to point toward both his guilt & a kind of 'high-school jock' burnout.
He had been so wildly & effortlessly popular in high school, that he 'peaked' there.
He didn't or didn't know how to fill his own life after high school was over & his admirers were gone.
"I'd say this cloud is Cumulo Nimbus."
"Didn't he discover America?"
"Penfold, shush."
Exactly. "Uncle Rico Syndrome" (Napoleon dynamite). High school were his best years, he had no direction in life because he was so glorified at school they he didn't feel the need to have one and then reality hit him hard. He had nowhere to go but down, either into a bottle of alcohol or pills or what have you.
shareYea Uncle Rico / Al Bundy Syndrome.. A guy peaking in High School usually leads to depression and addition.. whether it's alcohol or drugs..
Jesus would support Universal Health Care