In contrast, literary critic Harold Bloom does not count himself among the admirers of "No Country for Old Men", stating that it lacked the quality of McCarthy's best works, particularly "Blood Meridian", and compared it to William Faulkner's "A Fable". When comparing the lack of "moral argument" in "Blood Meridian" to the heightened morality present in "No Country for Old Men", he considered stating that the "apocalyptic moral judgments" made in "No Country for Old Men" represented "a sort of falling away on McCarthy's part".