Cormac Mccarthy Publicizing The Road Analysis

McCarthy Interview Succeeds in Publicizing The Road Cormac McCarthy is a highly regarded author who began his career in 1965 with his first novel, The Orchard Keeper. Although he began writing and publishing so long ago, it was not until 2007 in an interview with Oprah Winfrey that he made his first appearance on television. McCarthy never fully admitting to anything about why this is, but one can assume that he simply likes his privacy. This is why the interview between Winfrey and McCarthy can cause questions to arise about the motives behind the arrangement of this interview. As it turns out McCarthy’s publisher wanted him to sell as many copies of The Road as possible, and The Oprah Winfrey Show was the fastest, most efficient way he …show more content…
In response to Oprah's questioning of where the idea of The Road came from, McCarthy told the story of his trip to El Paso which put the image of a post-apocalyptic world in his mind. He then goes on to explain that his trip to Ireland is when he actually began treating the image as a novel. Both trips he was with his son, John Francis, who at the time of this interview was only eight years old. As McCarthy speaks more in depth about his son, Oprah asks McCarthy if his book was meant as a love story to his son. In response to this he simply blushed and began talking about how had he not had his son, The Road probably would not have been written. Speaking about his son brings out the emotion and love he and his son share, which definitely can play into touching the audience's sense pathos and possibly encourage them to seek that emotion further and purchase the …show more content…
After being hidden so to speak from the spotlight for the first few decades of his writing career, he very suddenly appeared on an exclusive interview on The Oprah Winfrey Show. Within the interview, the audience was appealed to through their logos, pathos, and ethos and does this was done very successfully. The overall goal of the interview was to gain publicity for McCarthy’s new book and have as many copies sold as possible. Before the interview, according to Newswire on nielsen.com, only 156,000 units of the book were sold, and in the months and years following, the popularity of the book grew and now there have been 1.4 million units sold. Clearly, the interviews goal was met and the goal of the collaboration was well worth the