Anton Chigurh (Javier Bardem):
Chigurh is the first major character to be seen in the film. We only get glimpses of him being arrested first, this is until he strangles the guard when we see his full characterisation, physically and mentally. This murder is not only intensely graphic but sums up his character right from the start. Chigurh has one major aim in the plot which is to get a mass amount of money which has been taken and will not stop until he has it. This is shown through the multiple murders which he causes and his dominating characterisation.
Llewelyn Moss (Josh Brolin):
Moss seems like an ordinary man who is first shown doing his normal activity of hunting. When wandering after missing his shot, Moss finds a mass murder and an amount of drugs. He carries on walking until he sees a body laid by a tree with the cash which was meant in exchange for the drugs. Caught up in this drug deal, he then gets the psychopath, Chigurh, after him which ends up in bloodshed and a race around the country and Mexican Border. Moss is killed before the end of the film, his death not explicit but noted (conveyed in a time lapse through a black fade). His death is a contrast to the normal ideal endings of film.
Sheriff Tom Bell (Tommy Lee Jones):
Whilst being the top-billed actor in the film, the Sheriff is the main character out of the three who has the least amount of screen time. Even though his voice over is the first person we hear speak in the film, we do not visually see him until a good way into the film. Bell is an overall good person, his main aim being of aid to help Moss and stop Chigurh. Yet he never has any main interactions with either of them, the main person being Carla (Moss' wife). We are lead to believe that once Moss is dead, then Bell and Chigurh will have a stand off, the main moment of tension being when Bell walks into the darkened crime scene and there's one shot of Chigurh under the bed. However the film ends on a simple story of Bell's dream which involves his father.
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