1.  How feminist critics would look at the novel.
2. Death symbolises hope for the boy as he would join his mother and father.
3. He is attracted to female personalities as at the end of the book he wants to spend everyday with the woman. (the boy)
4. When the man dies the mood alters it is more relaxed and hopeful.
5. McCarthy uses 3rd person free indirect style, where the reader feels that they are feeling the events from the characters prospective.
  

>critical

>symbolism

>hope

>relaxed                                                  -Protection.