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"The Searchers" versus All the Pretty Horses

The American west is one of our most revered eras, romanticized by numerous forms of media in the United States. Mediums of movies, books and television shows glorify the fiction of the old west. John Ford's film "The Searchers" is an ideal example of this romanticized American West. Typically, an American Western story confines the women to home duties, having no original ideas or thoughts of their own, while the status of the hero is elevated by destroying the savage and crude Native Americans. The American hero then finds love, and rides off into the sunset triumphant. Conversely, Cormac McCarthy's All the Pretty Horses challenges the romanticized American West with the use of setting, gender roles, and the American cowboy.
John Grady and Ethan are two very different characters. In both tales, the main characters interact with other cultures but, in very different ways. The typical American Western highlights a cowboy who is......

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