The Crossing Cormac Mccarthy Analysis

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Cormac McCarthy’s passage of “The Crossing” depicts our protagonist sitting down for a rest while trying to get away from a horrible reality. The descriptions become distorted with the truth. It almost seems like the protagonist is hallucinating to escape a terrible tragedy. The countless metaphors within this passage relate back to what he truly is running away from. Also, his surroundings are eerie and creepy creating a perfect aura for the protagonist to be paranoid and secretive while also achieving a desperation to get away from the unwanted actuality. The first hallucination that is witnessed belongs to the second paragraph where the main character starts to compare a firelight to a priest who is performing a spiritual ritual. This small distractor from reality is due to the fact that …show more content…
His surroundings make the character’s feelings more prominent. The coyotes that constantly howl in the dark suppress the protagonist into acting like an anxious and terrified human being. The coyotes provide a frightful atmosphere for him. This stresses the fact that he has something important to do that keeps calling to him constantly, but he aims to avoid this issue at all costs. The coyotes are more metaphors that are led to be citizens of the town that continuously exasperate him about the immense complication that this character clearly has. The constant howling that continues until midnight provides the horse a satisfactory excuse to take his leave. The horse, which also is a metaphor, is a friend of the protagonist's that has left him already when the friend was under a great amount of stress. His friend could not take the pressure that the protagonist provided him and had decided to leave once the main character was not paying attention. The absence of a familiar friend and the presence of the howling coyotes create a creepy environment to further enhance the main character’s
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