I, too, couldn't help but think of Percy when reading The Road.
Somewhere, perhaps in the essay Rich mentions, he pictures the end of
things, and speaks of the solitude of two people together, and the
profound and triadic bond that will then exist between them. I found
the language used between the man and boy to have that quality, as
though even the most mundane words had been stripped free of their
calcification and been turned into something new.
The ending of the novel also seemed Percyan to me--the redemption and
hope were so much like the endings of Moviegoer, LITR, and Second
Coming. At once cryptic and certain, McCarthy confirms the presence
of God and goodness in the face of a world gone mad.
--Rhonda "You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual,
because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man
has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing."
Walker Percy
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