McCarthy doesn't make explicit what kind of catastrophe has ruined the earth and destroyed human civilzation, but what might be suggested by the many descriptions of a scorched landscape covered in ash? What is implied by the father's statement that, "On

McCarthy doesn't make explicit what kind of catastrophe has ruined the earth and destroyed human civilzation, but what might be suggested by the many descriptions of a scorched landscape covered in ash? What is implied by the father's statement that, "On this road there are no godspoke men. They are gone and I am left and they have taken with them the world,"?