@article{2017,title={A POST-APOCALYPTIC RESPONSE TO 9/11: CORMAC McCARTHY’S THE ROAD},abstractNode={The events of September 11 has revived an earlier literary genre: the post-apocalyptic novel. The quantity of the films and novels produced shows the shock, fear, anxiety, grief has been long-termed and that resulted in many people’s naming their experience as ‘apocalyptic’, like the attack itself. American author Cormac McCarthy has echoed the feelings of many in his tenth novel The Road. The author even believes that the apocalyptic imagination is now different as the sense ‘nothing will be the same again’ has been engraved on the minds. In addition to the attacks, the Iraq War in the following months contributed to the immense awe and shock. This article examines how Cormac McCarthy’s novel reveals the psychological and sociological changes in American society following the attacks in 2001.},author={Betül ATEŞCİ KOÇAK},year={2017},journal={The Journal of Academic Social Science}}