Are Cormac McCarthy's Western Novels a Quintet?

This video explores if Blood Meridian, The Border Trilogy, No Country for Old Men, and The Counselor are meant to be read as one series! Cormac McCarthy’s Southern Novels are often discussed as a loose quartet of books depicting the loss of the Appalachian consciousness to industrialization. The Passenger and Stella Maris are dyadic. But, what about McCarthy’s western works? Studying all the Western works as a loss of certain archetypal elements of the American West opens us up to the idea that these books are a linear series in timelines and narrative. Below I explore this!