All the Pretty Horses (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Cormac McCarthy
- First Published: 1992
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Western
- Time of Work: 1949
- Setting: East Texas and Mexico
- Genres: Long fiction, Bildungsroman
- Subjects: North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, 1940’s, Antiheroes, West, U.S., Lynching, Mexico or Mexicans, Westerns, Lightning, Boys, Texas, Horses
- Locales: Mexico, Texas
Characters Discussed
John Grady Cole, the novel’s protagonist, who grows up on an East Texas ranch. When his grandfather dies, he decides to seek a life of adventure in Mexico, taming horses and living free. Cole has a strong sense of the dignity of life and of his own integrity. These qualities are strongly challenged when he falls in love with a young Mexican woman; her family forbids him to court her. When he does so anyway, he is hunted down as a criminal, becoming involved in a case of alleged horse theft. Sorely challenged by men who share neither his reverence for life...
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