Max Johnson’s Reviews > No Country for Old Men > Status Update

At the beginning of each chapter in this book, there's a pause that takes place, in which someone monologues about something. From what I can gather it seems to be the sheriff of the book. The pauses are interesting in that they act as moments of reflection for the reader, with the monologues not taking about any of the events that have taken place in the book, but instead just life events from the sheriff.

In this session, the book mostly focused on Anton and Moss. The way that Anton is written is somewhat horrifying. Anton doesn't seem to do his job for any reason related to wealth, more so it seems that Anton only does his job out of a sense of being a savior of some sort. What I mean by that is that when Anton is about to remove someone from the world, he tries to get them to see the truth, in a twisted sort of way.

In this session, Moss was able to get patched up in a hospital somewhere in Mexico, only to be approached by a man named Carson Wells. Wells offered Moss an out, by saying that if Moss just gave Wells the money back, he could get Anton off of Moss's back, and would even allow Moss to keep some of the money. I'm close to being half way done with the book, so I'm interested to see what happens to Moss next.

I've already read a good section of this book so far, and I can tell that for a large majority of this book that I will need to expunge certainly details to remain school friendly. In the story so far, the book has been cut into three stories featuring the sheriff, Moss, and Chigurh. There is certainly an added sense of dread when reading this book, as it set in new mexico, which adds to the distrubingness of it all.