Loneliness and boredom

Meanwhile I began going to Frisco more often; I tried everything in the books to make a girl...There were plenty of queers. Several times I went to San Fran with my gun and when a queer approached me in a bar john I took out the gun and said, "Eh? Eh? What's that you say?" He bolted. I've never understood why I did that; I knew queers all over the country. It was just the loneliness of San Francisco and the fact that I had a gun. I had to show it to someone. I walked by a jewelry store and had the sudden impulse to shoot up the window, take out the finest rings and bracelets, and run to give them to Lee Ann. Then we could flee to Nevada together. The time was coming for me to leave Frisco or I'd go crazy. (pg 73)

Sal had been in California for months now and nothing was really going to his plan. "Whatever are we going to do about shipping out?" Sal was very frustrated because his life was "wrapped in the shack, in Remi's battles with Lee Ann, and in the middle of the night at the barracks" where he was only making 55 bucks a week. Remi tells Sal several times what President Truman said, "we must cut down on the cost of living" and noticed that Remi was full of "mad schemes" and was quite the theif. Eventually Sal becomes his partner in crime. They steal a whole box of groceries from the barracks, while Sal is on duty and he even leaves his post. When Lee Ann was delighted at the loot he realized that "everybody in America is a natural born theif" and he "was getting the bug" himself. As they were out on the old rusty freighter in the bay looking to strip the ship they saw that it had already "been stripped by a bunch of thieves". Lee Ann had taken all her clothes off and was sunning herself and Sal wanted to "jump down from a mast and land right in her". Sal has become very loney and bored in California. He begins to go to San Francisco alot more to try and find company and women but to no avail. He is carrying the gun with him everywhere, starts pulling it out on "queers" and even has the impulse to rob a jewelry store and take the loot to Lee Ann. He is very desperate and is on the verge of going crazy. He has completely changed. He's doing the exact opposite of what his job says he should be doing and is thinking of stealing his friends girl and running away with her. He's thousands of miles from home and is losing his insight. Every time things get bad he thinks it's time to move on. I believe he is getting a bit homesick but now his home is on the road where I believe he is most comfortable. Maybe he is just taking advantage of being so far away from home and can get away with these things, or has he forgotten what it was like? Will he find his way back to his old self or has he changed for good? Will he ever find a place on the road where he is truly comfortable and happy?