No Country For Old Men Analysis

The Struggle Within Men
No Country for Old Men is Western crime novel by Cormac McCarthy. It focuses around the conflict of several as each attempt to battle their pride. There are several protagonists in the novel such as Sheriff Bell and Llewelyn Moss. Both of which are locals in the small on the border between Texas and Mexico. The strung together with narrations by Sheriff Bell as he struggles to come to terms with the chaos that has unfolded throughout his county. The commotion begins when local welder, Llewelyn Moss, discovers a gruesome scene of murdered men, illegal narcotics and abandoned money. His greed unfortunately takes the best of him, as he decides to take the bundle of cash and proceed home.
Little does he know the people associated with the money are not the kind of men he should deal with. The satchel of money ends up becoming a Pandora’s Box for Moss and a series of violence is

One of the examples is when questioned by an operator at a local gas station about his whereabouts. Instead of harming the Gas Station operator, he instead measures the value of his life with a coin toss. The coin, to Chigurh, represents the value of human life and the uncertainty of it. In the mind of Chigurh, he can determine the outcome of an individual’s life by playing a manipulative game of “heads and tail”. If the opponent his faces calls the correct side of the coin, most likely they live. However, the decision ultimately relies of Chigurh because he never disclosing the winning side of the coin. When confronted by the gas station operator it becomes apparent that Chigurh has inflicted some type of fear into the man, and sometimes the feeling of fear is enough to feed the monster inside of him. Chigurh’s believes the fate of his victims are pre-determined by their choices and that he is merely doing the work of the grim