NoCountryforOldMan《老无所依》.doc

Like Cormac McCarthys previous Border Trilogy, No Country For Old Men is set in the West Texas/Mexico border area. Sheriff Bell, an old-time honest, small-town sheriff, finds the shot-up corpses and cars of a drug deal gone wrong in the desert. Its scene that was stumbled upon earlier by cowboy and Vietnam vet Llewelyn Moss. Moss found the $2 million in cash, and before walking off with it, tends to a dying man. This act of kindness defeats Moss attempt at anonymity, and sets amoral and psychotic killer Anton Chigurh on his path. Chigurh ostenisbly works for the Mexican drug cartel that wants their money back, but even they dont trust him. Its a path of murder, violence, and greed in the desert as Moss and Bell find themselves against evil theyve never imagined. No Country For Old Men has received mostly positive reviews with the Houston Chronicle saying, Like these doomed cowboys, McCarthy cannot turn away from the horror he sees around him. His voice is hoarse, his visions are often nightmares. In No Country For Old Men he has conjured up a heated story that brands the readers mind as if seared by a knife heated upon campfire flames. I sent one boy to the gas chamber at Huntsville. One and only one. My arrest and my testimony. I went up there and visited with him two or three times. Three times. The last time was the day of his execution. I didn’t have to go but I did. I sure didn’t want to. Hed killed a fourteen year old girl and I can tell you right now I never did have no great desire to visit with him let alone go to his execution but I done it. The papers said it was a crime of passion and he told me there wasn’t no passion to it. Hed been dating this girl, young as she was. He was nineteen. And he told me that he had been planning to kill somebody for about as long as he could remember. Said that if they turned him out hed do it again. Said he knew he was going to hell. Told it to me out of his own mouth. I don’t know what to make of that. I surely don’t.