reactions, direct comment, thoughts, and mannerisms. This study includes the application of all ways proposed by Murphy in revealing the characteristics of the father in The Road.
Here are the characteristics of the father as the major character in the story:
1. Easygoing
In The Road, the personal description of the father as the main character is not
described in details. The author does not tell his name, age, and complexion to the readers. The readers may know that he is emaciated and pale because he lacks food and sparingly
eats. The father and his son need to ransack many places they pass to get food. In order to save their lives, they eat whatever they can find.
In a pantry they came upon part of a sack of cornmeal that rats had been at in the long time ago. He sifted the meal through a section of windowscreen and collected
a small handful of dried turds and they built a fire on the concrete perch of the house and made cakes and cooked them over a piece of tin. Then they ate them
slowly one by one. He wrapped the few remaining in a paper and put them in the knapsack 88.
He also looks filthy and messed up. He never takes a bath, washes his clothes, cuts his hair and shaves his beard until he gets an opportunity to do it.
He cut his own hair it didn’t come out so good. He trimmed his beard with the scissors while a pan of water heated and then he shaved himself with a plastic
safety razor. The boy watched, When he was done he regarded himself in the mirror. He seemed to have no chin 161.
Besides, the readers may know that the father is insufficient from the clothes he wears and the stuff he brings during his journey with his son. The author tells that the
father wears his parka, mask, jeans, shoes, and stinking robe to protect him from the cold.
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The father only has a pair of shoes. He always worries about his shoes for being ruined and his feet for being wet, cold, and numb because of the snow and the falling rain. Meanwhile,
his clothes are getting outworn and filthy because he wears them everyday. He also uses the hood of his parka to bring food such as morel found near the waterfall and hard, brown
and shriveled apples which are found in the orchard he passes by. He went row by row till he’d a puzzle in the grass. He’d more apples than he could
carry. He felt out the spaces about the trunks and filled his pockets full and he piled in the hood of his parka behind his head and carried apples stacked along his
forearm against his chest 128. Further, in order to carry his stuff, he pushes a grocery cart and slings his knapsack
over his shoulder. Both of them contain some essentials. There are stinking blankets, a plastic tarpaulin, a lamp, tinned food, tools, eating utensils, threadbare clothes, some toys,
storybooks, and binoculars. He also brings a pistol with two bullets hanging on his belt. He sat in the sand and inventories the contents of the knapsack. The binoculars. A
half pint bottle of gasoline almost full. The bottle of water. A pair of pliers. Two spoons. He set everything out in arrow. There were five small tins of food and he
chose a can of sausages and one of corn and he opened these with the little army can opener and set them at the edge of the fire and they sat watching the labels char
and curl 76. Based on direct comment, personal description, and mannerism, it is clear that the
father is easygoing. He eats whatever he can eat and brings his stuff that is getting unworn and is ready to be left behind if he is not able to carry it away.
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2. Skilled
