
Title
A World Thoroughly Unmade: McCarthy’s Conclusion to The Road
Document Type
Article
Annotation
On McCarthy’s allusion to “Big Two-Hearted River,” arguing that Hemingway’s ending on the restorative powers of the pastoral landscape is more salutary and reassuring than McCarthy’s final images of the fragility of the natural world.
Published in
Explicator
Volume
70
Issue
1
Date
2012
Pages
63-66
COinS
Citation
Brandt, Kenneth K. “A World Thoroughly Unmade: McCarthy’s Conclusion to The Road.” Explicator 70, no. 1 (Jan.-Mar. 2012): 63-6.