No Country For Old Men- Reflection

For this post, I decided to reflect on the novel, No Country For Old Men. I really enjoyed reading this novel because it was very intriguing. Cormac McCarthy wrote this novel in a very specific way. His writing style is unique because it is written like it was designed to become a screenplay. For example, “He switched off the light and stood. He walked out slowly to where the other bodies lay. The shotgun was gone. The moon was already a quarter ways up. All but day bright. He felt like something in a jar.” This quote shows the style of writing throughout the novel. The sentences are short and due to this, the plot is moved along very rapidly. Along with the writing style, another interesting thing in this novel in Ed Tom Bell’s soliloquies. These are at the beginning of each novel and Ed Tom Bell describes a certain event that has happened to him in his life. These soliloquies add a lot of context to the novel because they give the reader insight into his life and things he has gone through in the past.

After reading the whole novel, my favorite character was Chigurh. I liked him throughout the novel because he was very mysterious and it was hard to predict what he was going to do next. The reader never knew when he was going to kill someone or blow something up, which was the novel intriguing and it kept me wanting to read more.