No Country for Old Men Chapter III Quotes

No Country for Old Men Chapter III Quotes

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Quote 1

It takes very little to govern good people. Very little. And bad people cant be governed at all. Or if they could I never heard of it. (3.1.6)

Do you agree with Bell's point? We imagine he would be against gun control, since good people behave, and bad guys would get guns, anyway.

Quote 2

I aint makin no promises, he said. That's how you get hurt. (3.2.23)

Llewelyn does what he can to protect his wife because that's what a good husband would do. Sadly, she gets hurt, anyway, despite him not makin no promises. It seems that none of his attempted good deeds work out as he wants them to. He's just up against too much.

Quote 3

By the time he got up he knew that he was probably going to have to kill somebody. He just didn't know who it was. (3.3.276)

Llewelyn knows he will have to do things he doesn't want to do in order to survive. Do you think Chigurh ever started on the same road, slowly doing things that were more and more immoral until he became who he is? Or is his kind of evil something deeper?