Examine some of the secondary characters in the novel. Do they provide any hope or merely despair for father and son?
McCarthy’s The Road It is possible to read this novel as a metaphor of spiritual and moral survival. Father and son traverse a dying world and face multitudes of suffering (e.g. starvation, fear of being cannibalized, etc.) Their journey, or quest, brings up many philosophical and existential questions. Can goodness survive in the face of […]