Comment on structure

Fear and Loathing, as is to be expected of a mad drug-fueled dash across the desert and through the streets of Las Vegas, is divided into short, rapid-fire chapters, each of which describes a single scene. The two larger divisions separate Thompson's coverage of the Mint 400 with his infiltration of the DA's seminar on narcotics. The break between these two is Thompson's aborted flight out of Las Vegas back to L.A.