The Road

I have always found it to be true that people generally read sci-fi novels or go to the movies in order to be entertained or stimulated on some level, or perhaps even to be inspired on what the future could hold.  After reading the first few dozen pages of The Road, I now have a very dark and hopeless look on the future that McCarthy is writing about.  Although it is always entertaining and useful to have some kind of danger and adventure, this story presents unheard of misery, despair, and hopelessness.  A world where you and your son are the only people that aren't crazy cannibals, and are always cold, and have to scavenge for every scrap of food, may just be a little too much for people to endure.  It was too much for the wife of the man, who mocked him being naive enough to think that he could survive in such a harsh and unforgiving world.