No Country For Old Men Analysis

Cormac McCarthy has written a multitude of novels that take a setting of the old western and No Country for Old Men was no different from his normal style writing. No Country for Old Men is set in Texas, and is not much different from what you would think about Texas. Much is still desert and dirt roads, old dinners, and not too much civilization. However, they do have a Walmart which is where one of our main characters Llewelyn Moss and his wife meet. McCarthy doesn’t provide much back ground information throughout the entire novel. However, we can incur that Llewelyn is a normal man who lives in a trailer and we get the impression that he doesn’t have much money, although, very shortly after the novel begins Moss is presented with an opportunity that most people in his position would have taken. Moss then enters himself into a cat and mouse game that was certainly a huge surprise, and something he definitely wasn’t expecting. Moss, within the first few pages of the novel, is presented with the opportunity that

As was discussed before Chigurh isn’t a normal murder. Chigurh meets people along the way as he looks for Moss, while traveling almost all over South Texas and even into parts of Mexico he kills many people. However, Chigurh lets some of the people that he meets decide if they live or die by two things. One thing is by asking them if they have seen him, and another is the object of chance. Chigurh tells them that he is going to flip a coin and they have to call it (Shmoop Editorial Team). By flipping a coin, they have an equal; chance of living as well as an equal chance of being killed. Chigurh plays it off as though he doesn’t like killing, however; I believe that he does. The way that he kills and then stands over and watches them as they die, explains a different side of