Just read this and it's my first book from this author. Who has the most interesting opinions on Chigurh's character? I need to get some cause I can't come up with my own

>>24557451 (OP)
I need to know what you'll do with my opinions

>>24557464
use them to make opinions

>>24557451 (OP)

He's clearly the angel of death, and the clin flipping is fate. He has no personal opinion on the matter.

>>24557478
Call it. Heads or tails. Call it.

>>24557478
>>24557451 (OP)
The car accident at the end is in there to make sure you understand he’s not supernatural. That this doesn’t stop people saying he’s supernatural is just a sign readers are retarded. I’m not sure how much clearer they want the author to be, maybe he should have addressed the reader directly.

>>24557451 (OP)
Chigurh doesn't have a character, he is projected onto by other characters as if he is The Phallus and Master Signifier. The Hero peversely tries to stand in the place of the Phallus. The Sheriff neurotically fears his relationship with the Master Signifier. Chigurh has no character because he is schizophrenic and cannot have a relationship with himself.

Deleuze & Guattari get out now. I have to cite them, because I promised him I'd cite them to you. I don't have to, but I promised him I'd cite them to you.

the coin flip is just a cope he gives to whoever made the supposed choices that led them to him just like how he says the coin traveled all the way to this coin flipping moment. It is a way anthropomorphize his predestination/determination whatever the fuck principle,to show the person that they were always fucked if it came to this. He's probably convinced they won't call it correctly either. What I don't get is how Anton chooses who to ignore and who to kill, it seems like he's willing to pass on people who are too inconvenient to kill in the moment or maybe people the furthest detached from whatever he's involved in (kids, women, random store clerks where he actually just pays for shit and leaves). I think he would have most likely just passed the gas station old guy but the old guy's questions about him coming from Dallas convinces chigurh that he's involved somehow but since he's not sure here he checks with the coin.

>I had no belief in your ability to move a coin to your bidding. How could you?

>I only have one way to live. It doesn't allow for special cases.

The coin flipping scene with Carla Jean (?) is different in the movie. In the book, CJ calls it wrong and is killed. In the movie, she calls Chigurh's bluff and tells him he's the one deciding her fate, not the coin toss. Then she's killed.

>>24557514
>The car accident at the end is in there to make sure you understand
that men's phallic power has a limit, and that there's always a tougher hombre because men grow old: this is not a country for old men.

Just like when our Hero suggests he can weld anything, or when he misses his shot.

>>24557451 (OP)
This was my 2nd Cormac McCarthy book after Child of God (which I have re-read 3 times). I'm part of the minority who prefers the No Country book over the movie. I couldn't stomach The Road. Really oddly written. On the contrary, Blood Meridian is really well-written but feels so soul-crushingly intense and I have tried it 3 times and then stop (I have memorized the first few pages). Maybe for another time in my life. I think I'll try Suttree next.

>>24557514
The car accident feels like the most supernatural thing in the whole story.

>Anything can be an instrument, small things. Things you wouldn't even notice
>And then one day there's an accounting. And after that nothing is the same

Chigurh intentionally drives without a seatbelt on and he was able to make a move to safe his life as soon as he saw the car. So he was somehow always prepared for this sort of situation

>>24557451 (OP)
Something I like about Chigurh is how he's

>>24557565
The movie retroactively became worse for me after reading the book not by much though.

>>24557565
The book is superior due to the Sheriff's decay into senility.

Seems like the movie cut out too much of the philosophical bits of the book so you get retards thinking Anton is satan going around giving people coin flip fates

>>24557555
damn good take on it.

>>24557478
yeah thats what he thinks he is, until he gets called on it by the guy's wife who says "its your choice not the coins" and he sperg rages at her lmao chigurh fucking OWNED
that being said, I am drawn to his character, autistic guy roaming the desert LARPing as angel of death for the cartels
something sounds comfy about it in a way, even though he's obviously evil

>>24557576
I enjoyed the movie better after ending with the book. A really great tribute

>>24557451 (OP)
He and Carson Wells probably also served in Nam but as agents of the Phoenix Program, which was a massive program of state-run serial killing basically, and then worked with death squads in Guatemala/Colombia after the war. There's some giant blogpost by a guy who pieces this together from some tiny details that McCarthy mentions about Chigurh and Wells in the book.

>>24561112
Link?

>>24561149
https://www.reddit.com/r/cormacmccarthy/comments/1iddigg/anton_chigurh_is_a_cia_asset_definitive_edition/

It comes from some dude's blog but in a very poorly formatted PDF

>>24557451 (OP)
Anton was the sheriffs father. The whole story is him retelling what his father told him which explains why he has knowledge of impossible details.
>My dad never used a gun.

>>24557514
no, the accident is supposed to confirm that chigurh is supernatural, human action can only do so much to change his impact,

>>24561643
also to confirm this theory, he had already achieved all his goals by the time of the accident, if mccarthy wanted to cast aspersions about his supernatural nature, he would have allowed llewellyn to live or placed a major stumbling block towards chigurh's objectives, but he slices through them all like butter, i've always thought this argument was made by moralizing christcucks who can't handle the idea of evil winning even for once, even though that's what happens every single day

so chigurh is the sherrif's father's ghost?

>>24561613
Cool, thanks man.

>>24561613
>those leddit comments about the post being too long to read

lmao

>>24557478
It's to abdicate responsibility for his part in their deaths
"You married into it" to the gas station worker, it's not his fault he's killing you. It's your choice that led to this.

>>24557542
It's because the attendant reveals to a hitman, he knows where he's travelled from. Information that could lead to him being arrested, he's now a threat to Chigurh. But he can't just shoot him, he has to frame it as the man's fault/choice that got him killed.

>>24561702
>so chigurh is the sherrif's father's ghost?
Yeah, the Sheriff's grandfather's ghost. The toughest hombre who ever lived who died on his porch when the Injun was a tougher hombre. Also you're forgetting that this is Rambo, the novel.