Cormac McCarthy's Western novel series,"the Border Trilogy"described the community of the Ameri-can West facing crisis under the influence of modernity that flourished in the mid-20th century.As a result of ex-traneous factors of modernity beyond the locality,the community gradually disintegrated on the levels of kinship,lo-cality,and spirituality.The cowboy youths thereby lost the sense of belonging,and embarked on a journey to re-construct the community.The pursuit of identity in modernity and the situation of"solitary"impeded their con-struction of communities,but value rationality and mutual help made it possible to build a new community among strangers.The hope of reconstructing community with humanity conveyed McCarthy's solutions of the spiritual cri-sis brought by modernity,which is modern people's loneliness.
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