![]() ![]() He is the bringer of light in the darkness, the embodiment of “carrying the fire” (p. Although, as expected, the Father makes all pragmatic decisions concerning survival, the Boy is the clear authority on morality, persuading the father to preserve a charitable spirit in McCarthy’s amoral wasteland. This is the first of many instances in which the son adopts a leadership role. ![]() The description that follows that dream scene allows for a sense of guidance to emerge, one that is intrinsically connected to the Boy. He said: If he is not the word of God God never spoke (5).īoth the unconscious and the real provide nightmarish scenarios, which cruelly trap the Father in a state of hopelessness. He knew only that the child was his warrant. In the dream from which he'd wakened he had wandered in a cave where the child led him by the hand (3). ![]() But in this landscape, where gloom corrupts the days like “the onset of some cold glaucoma dimming away the world,” the clarity of waking is negated by a fear that only the refuge of eternal sleep can cure (p. In a normal setting, the father’s moment of awakening would mean a return to consciousness and the certainty of reality, a relief from the hauntingly cryptic realm of dreams. In the first scene of The Road (2006), Cormac McCarthy encapsulates the bleak psychology of his post-apocalyptic novel with a metaphor of blindness that symbolically translates the confusion and hopelessness of his desolate world. ![]()
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