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Blood Imagery In Cormac Mccarthy's All The Pretty Horses

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Rishi Mallipeddi In her essay on the Search for Utopia and the Blood imagery in Cormac McCarthy’s All the Pretty Horses, Susan Lee describes how the landscape serves as a meaningful backdrop to John Grady Cole’s adventures in Mexico. She believes that while Cole seems to journey to Mexico purely to search for his utopia, John Grady’s underlying inspiration for the journey stems from his desire to return to “the human emotions and internal desires displaced by the intrusion of modernity”(Susan Lee 189). Later, she claims that Cormac McCarthy equates “the desire for utopia with inherent human features,” specifically blood imagery(Lee 189). The blood imagery in the novel seems to emphasize the “life-sustaining features at the heart of the protagonist's

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