The Road

The road

How long do you think they survived after the disaster?

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Cormac McCarthy purposely blurs the sense of time. The fact that the world is dead makes the passage of time redundant: almost pointless. I think the mother might have tried to exist for a few months or even a year after the apocalypse for the sake of her child. We can see glimpses of weather patterns through the book that may constitute time but that would only be speculation.