Premium Content Wildness and Civilization in All the Pretty Horses
By Anonymous - February 01, 2007
The post-World War II boom that informs today's world has no place in Cormac McCarthy's All the Pretty Horses. The post-war optimism and suburban complacency common to other American works of this period does not figure into McCarthy's novel, peopled as it is by characters like Blevins whose "daddy never come back from the war" (64) and John…
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