McCarthy's women

Women in the book The Road by Cormac McCarthy seemed to be ignored and discarded. The only real woman that McCarthy goes into detail about is the wife, who, after she kills herself, seems to disappear. The story displayed women as sex slaves, hunters, reproducers, and food. There is not description of what the women look like or what their interest are, they seem to be overlooked and ignored. The author also never stressed any “good” women. The author seems to expand on all of the flaws of the women and not the good things about them. The wife is often described through the clothing that she wears, whether it be the dress of gauze and ivory combs in her hair, or the stockings under her summer dress. McCarthy never describes her features or her personality except when she commits suicide. And that situation makes me rally against the woman thinking of her as weak and uncaring. I can not really give my opinion of what I believe McCarthy feels about women because he does not really present a lot of them in the story. However, we can determine, through his lack of description, that he entire story revolves around the relationship between the son and the father. And maybe this is why he does not include more information about women, so that we can focus on the father and son relationship.