Cormac McCarthy's Heroes: Narrative Perspective and Morality in McCarthy's Novels

Cormac McCarthy's Heroes: Narrative Perspective and Morality in McCarthy's Novels
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Published on 2008 by ProQuest

This dissertation will explore McCarthy's range of narrative techniques, focusing on the early Appalachian novels, The Border Trilogy, and The Road, whose styles are representative of the whole corpus, in order to demonstrate how McCarthy ...

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To date, no one has systematically explored narrative perspective and its connection to morality in McCarthy's novels. The worldview of McCarthy's novels is notoriously difficult to identify, since his novels and plays, when placed in conversation with each other, dialogically pit arguments for the self-destructive nature of humankind against arguments for a rather mystical divine providence. This dissertation will explore McCarthy's range of narrative techniques, focusing on the early Appalachian novels, The Border Trilogy, and The Road, whose styles are representative of the whole corpus, in order to demonstrate how McCarthy privileges ethical behavior and moral attitudes. Revelations of the internal ethical struggles of moral men like John Grady Cole in The Border Trilogy or the father in The Road illuminate their imperfect heroism.

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