Ill-fated Motherhood: A Study of Mother Figures in the Select Novels of Cormac McCarthy
| Author |
| Sabnam Khwairakpam |
| Date of Publication: December, 2024 |
| Volume: XXIII, No.- XXVI |
| Abstract |
| Over the past five decades, Cormac McCarthy had written so little and even had claimed to know even so less about women. Most of his novels are bildungsroman of men: co-existing with one another, learning from one another and killing one another. Although a few insignificant female characters are always peppered here and there in the novels they are not as rounded as the male characters. The following essay intends to highlight the three ways in which McCarthy allows the ‘mothers’ in the novels to exist (or to perish): the incapable mother, the dead mother or the mother to whom motherhood would be straightaway denied via the following novels: The Orchard Keeper, Outer Dark, Child of God, All the Pretty Horses, The Crossing and The Road. |
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