No Country for Old Men Blog #2

So I've been reading deeper into this book, and I've got to say I find it a bit confusing. All of the talking in this book is without quotations, which I find very hard to follow sometimes. Sometimes I can't tell if the book is narrating or someone is talking. I've made a few inferences about this book. For one, I infer that the main character, Llewelyn Moss, will eventually meet up with the Sheriff of the town, Sheriff Bell, and they team up against Chigurh, who is the main antagonist. Something in my gut tells me this won't happen though, it's just something about this author's writing style. Another inference I made is that Chigurh might go to Llewelyn's house and hold his wife hostage. I think this because in a little bit of dialouge between Sheriff Bell and Llewelyn over the phone, Sheriff Bell hints at the fact that Chigurh might go after his wife.

I still have a couple of questions though:

1) What are the chapters in italics all about?
and
2) What's this thing that Chigurh keeps killing everyone with? The book only touches on what it is, and it's definently not a gun.

That's it for now, back to reading.