Part 1 of Essay
Cormac McCarthy, the author of many "American styled" novels such as Blood Meridian, All the Pretty Horses, and The Crossing, writes very good stories that appeal to the senses and the soul. He doesn't have famous writing "heroes" that give him an inspiration to write, nor give him ideas of what to write. Because of this ....

Part 2 of Essay
.... life beyond the realm of our world, "McCarthy's metaphysical assumptions are existential. Human consciousness of the past exists within each person in memories and contacts, held in an ongoing meaning by individuals as fragments, subject to loss as memory dims and subject to arbitrary changes without order or meaning" (Richey 141). These same critics compare McCarthy's writing to past writers saying that McCarthy shares some aspects of his writing with Thomas Pynchon, Edmund Wilson, Saul Bellow, and Jame ....