Essays on All the Pretty Horses

Cormac McCarthy uses Contemporary Westernism in All the pretty horses through the main characters; John Grady Cole, Lacey Rawlins, Jimmy Blevins, and Alejandra in cooperation with colloquialism to develop a theme of loyalty and a loss of innocence. Fed up with the direction that American society is taking, two young men run away to mexico...

In the novel All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy, he presents several symbols one of them being blood. Blood is very crucial and its significance is expressed in the novel. John Grady Cole’s devotion is compensated in blood. The brutal image of blood and violence is morbidly displayed throughout the whole novel. It is...

All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCathy gives an interesting take on the friendship that can exist between two teenagers in the late 1940s. John Grady Cole and Lacey Rawlins are inherently each other’s foil; where John Grady is far more mature and lives by a strict type of code that encompasses loyalty and morality,...