Friday, 23 November 2012

The Road - why are there less refrences to women than there are to men?

-The man wants to forget his wife.
-They are unimportant to the daily life of the man and the boy.
-Women are symbolic of life and reproduction, there is no more life in the world, no more women.
-The woman could not kill the boy and so killed herself, she then had no reason to be in the narrative.
-The mother is dead.
-The relationship between the man and boy becomes more established than it would have if the woman were still alive.
-Mother earth is no more as the mothers are dead and so is the world.
-The boy would not be so nieve if the woman was with them.
-The mother was more resourceful knowing that if she stayed then she would suffer more than pain, so ended her part in the story before it even started.

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