This work focuses on analyzing the American writer Cormac McCarthy’s protagonists. in a way that their process of growing up, so-called coming of age, is chronologically examined. Although McCarthy’s novels used as examples are not bildungsroman novels that the term coming of age is typical for, the plots are complex enough thanks to human relations and the protagonists' development from the beginning to the end of the novels. For those reasons, this atypical method of character analysis can be applied. Furthermore, given that the concepts of masculinity and violence are present in McCarthy’s works, the characters are primarily going to be analyzed through the theory of hegemonic masculinity by Raewyn Connell, who in her work Masculinities perfectly explains male behavior, what it depends on and how its hierarchy of power is constituted in society. This theory will be followed by the Frontier Myth theory by Richard Slotkin, which serves as additional context for the periods in which these selected novels take place. While these two themes are seemingly unrelated, it will be seen how men controlled the territory of The United States of America throughout history, and with that human relations, thus creating scenarios and situations that changed and shaped the protagonists of Blood Meridian, All the Pretty Horses and The Road.