![]() ![]() The writing transforms a standard western good-guy-bad-guy plot into serious literature. No one has McCarthy's ear for regional talk, nor eye for details of place. He speaks in the purest Texan with the idiosyncratic quirk of saying "kindly" instead of "kind of". He cares enormously about the people in his county and decided to become a law officer almost as a monastic choice to atone for something that happened during the war. He has a sense of humour so dry it is almost incendiary. McCarthy's sheriff, Ed Tom Bell, a happily married, decorated second world war veteran, is respectful of life, and, like nature writer Barry Lopez, stops his vehicle and removes crushed animals from the roadway to the grassy verge. ![]() The old Texas sheriffs served as law men, psychiatrists, Mr Fixits, social workers, medical aides and lonely hearts advisers. ![]() Cormac McCarthy has chosen one of the most interesting Texas figures as the central character in No Country for Old Men - the county sheriff. ![]()
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