Llewellyn Moss Quotes

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1) Ed Tom Bell
a) He is in his late fifties and is a WWII veteran.
b) He is the main character of the story. He is the sheriff that oversees the investigation of a trail of murders by Chigurh and tries to save Moss’ life.
Llewellyn Moss
a) He is a young man in his thirties.
b) Moss stumbles upon a drug deal site where he finds two million dollars and goes on the run from Chigurh, a hitman trying to kill him. Bell tries to save his life during the course of the book.
Anton Chigurh
a) He is in his thirties, with a dark complexion, and has eyes as “blue as lapis” that are like wet stones.
b) He is a hitman with no remorse for killing other people and a “psychopathic killer.” Chigurh is the main antagonist of the novel who tries to kill Moss
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I believe this is important to the story because it parallels Moss running from the drug dealers and trying to get away with their money and start over.
8) Two clear archetypes found within the novel are ones that usually go along with the western genre are the “White Hat” and the “Black Hat.” Sheriff Bell is easily identified as the White Hat of the story because of his position as a law man and being the morally good character in the story. The Black Hat is Chigurh because he is the villain and antagonist in the story who murders without remorse. Although these are classic archetypes found in the genre, McCarthy uses them in an unconventional way to make No Country For Old Men represent the Post-Western genre as opposed to the classic one.
9) I loved this book because of the characters, the themes it explores, and how it doesn’t tie everything up in a bow at the end. I would definitely recommend the book to a friend. I do think that the novel should be taught in school. I think it should be taught because it would expose more people to good literature.
10) McCarthy, Cormac. No Country for Old Men. New York: Knopf, 2005.

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