No Country For Old Men Reflection

“No Country for Old Men” by Cormac McCarthy, is an action packed novel, never once boring its audience. The novel immediately begins with action, when Chigurh escapes the sheriff and proceeds to kill him and take his car, and then immediately killing someone else. It is quite shocking, and as the novel progresses we see more of Chigurh’s character and how bad of a man he truly is. It seems that he kills people with no reasoning, and that he doesn’t feel bad at all when he does so. For example, after Llewelyn dies, Chigurh still decides to kill Llewelyn’s wife, Carla Ann, because Llewelyn didn’t directly give him the money. Chigurh still managed to find the money, so normally he would let the wife live, but he doesn’t. He is such a bad man, and he somehow manages to escape for good and never be seen again. He doesn’t have any punishment for the mass murders he committed, and this is quite a depressing ending. The novel was very entertaining, and even though it doesn’t end the way the audience it wants to, the ending alludes to the fact that in life not every bad action is punished, and not every criminal is captured.