Published 2021-07-30
Abstract
McCarthy’s novel The Road (2006) is known for its setting which deviates McCarthy’s readers from ‘far from the madding crowd’ setting to the city life which has been at present destructed by an unknown catastrophe which shatters the lives of the people of America. In such a setting the author makes his leading character wander along with his son in search of safety and a better future for his son while travelling in challenging weather surrounded by cannibals. The author makes the readers wonder at the survival skill of the father and his concern for his son in an era where people devour their own children. This paper focuses thus on the father’s struggle to cope up with his dying spirit which he fuels up to live only with the help of his memory about his wife and his father and with this spirit, he becomes the bridge between his lost world and his son’s unknown ‘New’ world where cannibalism has become the order of the day, to survive and safeguard his son from the moral less life and inculcate moral values and a better future for him.