The Correlation Between Wisdom and Suffering in Regard to the Physical and Emotional Scars of John Grady Cole and Oedipus Throughout the storylines of Cormac Mcarthy’s All the Pretty Horses and Sophocles’ Oedipus the King, the protagonists, John Grady Cole and Oedipus, are scarred both physically and mentally by their own actions and the actions of those around them. The act which causes the scar carries with it much suffering that is assumed to …showed first 75 words of 1218 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1218 total…and effects each character had to the suffering were different. With the responses of John Grady and Oedipus to their suffering and scars one can disprove the existence of wisdom from suffering, contradict Gustavo’s statement, and the determine the ability for suffering to ennoble or degrade. The protagonists of the novels also present to the reader the idea that the relationship between wisdom and suffering exists as two opposing forces that will never meet.