In The Road, the father constantly has dreams and flashbacks of his wife and yearns for her presence. “She held his hand in her lap and he could feel the tops of her stockings through the thin stuff of her summer dress” (McCormac 19). In this the man feels as if his wife is still there and she is present with him. He wishes that she was still alive and that he could have prevented her suicide. “She was gone and the coldness of it was her final gift. She would do it with a flake of obsidian” (McCormac 58). The man can barely sleep at night because of the memories of his wife. Now the man has to deal with the repercussions of her decision with the boy and himself. The boy wonders what happened to his mother, where she went, and wishes that she
