No Country for Old Men Chapter I Quotes
No Country for Old Men Chapter I Quotes
How we cite the quotes:
(Chapter.Section.Paragraph)
Quote 4
I really believe that he knew he was goin to be in hell in fifteen minutes. I believe that. And I've thought about that a lot. (1.1.1)
Following the first quote, this idea of evil is unsettling to Bell. Not just because evil is, naturally, unsettling, but because the whole concept is hard to comprehend. How can be people actually be that evil?
Quote 5
What do you say to a man that by his own admission has no soul? Why would you say anything? I've thought about it a good deal. But he wasnt nothin compared to what was comin down the pike. (1.1.1)
Did someone mention Anton Chigurh? Oh, actually, no—no one has mentioned him yet. That makes this foreshadowing, folks. It's Chigurh who will turn out to be way worse than the man in prison who says that if he is let out, he will kill again. That's pretty bad. And if that guy doesn't have a soul, what about Chigurh? Does he have an anti-soul?
Quote 6
They say the eyes are the windows to the soul. I don't know what them eyes was the windows to and I'd as soon not know. (1.1.2)
There's a description of Chigurh's eyes in the next chapter: "blue as lapis. At once glistening and totally opaque. Like wet stones" (2.4.73). What do you think those eyes are windows to? Do you even want to know? Would you even be able to understand what's behind there?