The Road

On page 75, the man says: "please don't tell me how the story ends." What is he referring to and why does he not want to know how it ends?

On page 75, the man says: "please don't tell me how the story ends." What is he referring to and why does he not want to know how it ends? 

 

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The man says this early on in the book. There is always the presence of the existential. The father knows they are relics in a dead world. The vestiges of humanity that are left are evil: perhaps the true nature of man. The man fears that he will have to kill his son at the end of this story to spare him even a worse death. At least for that moment, the father does not want to think of the end of their narrative.