McCarthy focuses on three main characters, Llewelyn Moss, Anton Chigurh, and Ed Tom Bell, as they deal with the fallout from the drug deal. The story takes place around the Mexico/United States border in 1980 and follows a drug deal gone wrong. For example, No Country for Old Men, started as a screenplay. When writing The Road, McCarthy was no doubt inspired by his previous novels, many of which touch on the very dark subject matter. When speaking about the novel, and the cause of the worldwide disaster, McCarthy stated that it was a meteor strike that resulted in the world of The Road.
It seems clear that at this moment, McCarthy did not see an optimistic future for the world. McCarthy has suggested that some of the dialogue was taken straight from conversations the two had together. When speaking about The Road today, McCarthy recalls spending time in El Paso Texas, with his son and considering what the world would look like with “fires up on the hill and everything being laid to waste.” He was loosely inspired by his relationship with his second son, John McCarthy when penning this novel.
McCarthy spent many years in Tennessee in the Appalachian south. To this day, McCarthy has written ten novels. His first novel, The Orchard Keeper, was published in 1965. He studied creative writing at the University of Tennessee for a period of time before twice dropping out. This is seen particularly clearly at the end of the novel when The Man shoots the flare gun into the air above the ocean, and The Boy doubts that God can see them.Ĭormac McCarthy was born in July of 1933 in Rhode Island. Some readers may go in another direction, interpreting an atheistic meaning to the text. There are some religious themes scattered throughout the novel as well, inspiring some readers to interpret a Christian meaning to the text. Some environmental groups have cited the novel as an example of what will happen with the world remains on the path on its own, pursuing progress at any cost and continuing to ignore the increasingly obvious signs that the planet is changing. One way that some readers interpret and approach the novel is through the lens of the climate crisis.
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