No Country for Old Men Essay

Compose a 4-5 page paper on one of the following:1. Choose any one of Bell’s narratives and perform a close reading that deepens your understanding of the novel as a whole. 2. Discuss and analyze the importance of codes in No Country for Old Men. 3. Based on your reading of the novel, how does McCarthy feel about America? 4. Analyze the role of women in the text. 5. McCarthy’s novel takes its title from a Yeats poem about art and artifice. Contrast the use of art in No Country for Old Men and A Visit from the Goon Squad. 6. What does McCarthy’s novel say about violence? Is it integral to exist? To America? 7. Compare the use of violence in No Country for Old Men to that of Hamlet. Consider what we see vs. what we don’t see.