The kind of characters Americans love. We just want them to get what's coming to them. W.A. Burgess, however, delineates the downward spiral of such a lifestyle without moral comment. Then that happens. The characters do not progress toward any new understanding through the course of the book.
People kill themselves.
Life goes on. The flights of stoned description are the perfect excuse for purple prose, and Burgess takes full advantage of the poetic possibilities to discuss death, time, and bus rides. Burgess offers no solutions. No moral lessons. He does not critique American culture, or the subculture.