What are the characters? - No Country For Old Men

What are the characters?

Sheriff

• Sheriff Ed Tom Bell
• struggling to adapt to changing world where senseless violence, greed, and corruption have become the norm
• man of faith who values ethics, morality, and honesty
• decorated WW2 veteran

Cowboy

• Llewellyn Moss
• strong willed and self-sufficient man
• uses his military training and survival skills in order to evade the dangerous men seeking his death
• has been disillusioned by his experience fighting in Vietnam, and does not operate in the world with the same moral framework as Sheriff Bell

Killer

• Anton Chigurh
• lacks a clear personal history
• a remorseless hit man who kills without hesitation
• perceives himself as the arbiter of fate
• operates outside of conventional understandings of justice and morality
• believes only in choice, chance, and fate
• sometimes preaches his philosophy before killing his victims, leaving the ultimate decision of whether the individual lives or dies to a coin toss