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Movement and Progress in James Sallis' Drive (Psychological Movement,…

- - - - Refers to the American dream of the westward movement as besieged by a prevalent stasis in society.
        Links to Driver in his ennoblement of the neoliberal 'freedom' that is rooted in his relationship to his car.
        Here the American dream of the Western frontier sees the traditional cowboy trope transmuted onto a capitalist system of movement.
        
        Driver constantly moves further away from the American ideal of the nuclear family through the cyclical violence which predetermines the deaths of his friends and family from his father's murder to Irene's killing as well as the replacement of family with a perverted kinship he shares with Nino and the gangster underworld.
- - - - 3) Driver steals the car from his foster parents and travels to LA where he struggles for an indeterminate time until he meets Shannon who becomes a quasi-parental figure to him
        
        4) Enters the world of stunt driving under the mentorship of Shannon
        
        5) After Shannon's death he moves into the world of getaway driving for criminals and gangsters
        
        6) Meets Irina and begins to form a bond with her and Benicio, her son
        
        7) delves deeper into the criminal underworld of getaay driving with Irina's partner, Standard, However, an attempted robbery goes wrong leading to Standard's death
        
        8) Irina is killed in a drive-by incident leading to Benicio's exile to Mexico to live with his grandparents.
        
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