Archetypes In All The Pretty Horses

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The idea of archetypes came from Swiss psychiatrist, Carl Jung, in 1919. An archetype appears when you are not conscious, an archetype is a pattern, behavior, or object that other patterns, behaviors, or objects copy. In All the Pretty Horses there are many archetypes throughout the novel. The most reoccurring dream is John Grady dreaming about horses. The most symbolic dream is when John Grady dreams about wild horses. After doing some research about dreaming about horses and wild horses, I found out that horses represent labor or serving you because they can carry us and take us places, and wild horses represent freedom. For McCarthy having the characters dream is a way to speak to the reader indirectly especially if McCarthy includes an
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