Symbolism, Imagery, Allegory
Setting
The border is a wild place, and the book's setting is almost as much of a character as the human players. The tumultuous lawlessness of the border lends the novel its modern Western feeling. How mo...
Genre
When you think of Westerns, you think of Texas, border runs, cattle drives, lassos, cowboy boots, and lots of lots of dust. Once you clear the air, you're left with a warm feeling of love for the p...
Writing Style
We have the feeling if we went up to a cowboy and said, "Howdy, pardner," he wouldn't do much more than look at us, chewing slowly on his toothpick. Or maybe he'd shoot us if he was having a really...
What's Up With the Title?
Old folks always be like Back in my day, iPods only held 4,000 songs, or I used to have to Netflix through the mail, and it took 3 days both ways through the rain. This country of streaming music a...
What's Up With the Ending?
Feel-good book of the year! is a blurb you will never see applied to No Country for Old Men. Most of the named characters we would call "good" guys—people like Llewelyn and Carla Jean, and maybe...
Tough-o-Meter
No Country for Old Men is also no book for beginner readers. It's not just the subject matter that's challenging: the book is written with purposefully obfuscating methodology. Which means it's sup...