Lady Mccarthy Loss Of Hope

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The final element McCarthy provides to prove his theme is the wife who loses the battle for survival and takes her own life. Opposite of the man, the wife is symbolic of the loss of hope. She is the character who changes the most due to the horrific apocalypse. She exemplifies the portion of society who could not adjust to the new catastrophic world and chose to give up. Before her passing, she exclaims to the man, “My only hope is for eternal nothingness and I hope it with all my heart”(). Unlike the man and the boy, the wife hopes for death instead of a rebirth of society. The wife views the world in a pessimistic way and chooses not to view the outcome of living through the horrendous apocalypse. Before the wife left her family he exclaims,

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