Summary and Analysis:
-Bell begins the chapter by talking, once again, about the changing times..he mentions a survey taken many years ago citing problems then and a similar survey taken in the present day discussing common problems and how much worse things have gotten
--"..the world is going to hell in a handbasket and people will just smile and tell me I'm getting old...But my feelin about that is that anybody that cant tell the difference between rapin and murderin people and chewin gum has got a whole lot bigger of a problem than what I've got." pg. 196 * i agree with him and think he has legitimate concerns
-Chigurh finds the office that hired Wells to find him, and kills the man...he takes a certain enjoyment of it that is scary (further proves Chigurh's character)
-Carla Jean and her mother leave to go to El Paso. Her mother is very upset, and keeps letting Carla Jean know that she knew something bad was going to happen because of Moss
-Chigurh goes to Carla Jean's mothers house in Odessa right after they had left and searches for any clues he could use to find them
"Weighing these things in his hand like a medium who might thereby divine some fact concerning the owner." pg 204 -->this quote is ironic and interesting to me, just because it once again paints Chigurh in a divine light and shows him acting as a greater entity, which is how he views himself and what causes him to murder and take some many people's lives in his hands
-Moss recovers the money and when the cab driver asks him what is going to happen if the police stop him, he responds, " There's too much shit still down the road that I got to deal with. It aint goin to end here." pg. 209-->this shows how determined Moss is and how he is ironically trying to take charge of his future
--he even buys a gun to help prepare himself,-->"he fired off three rounds then stood there in the cold sunlight watching the feathers drift across the gray chaparral, thinking about his life, what was past and what was to come." pg. 210
-Moss buys a pick up truck and begins on his journey to his wife in El paso
-He picks up a young girl hitchhiker
-she serves as company (must be lonely)
-she serves to help him drive
-helps to prove he is a good guy-->he warns her about how dangerous it is to hitchhike
-Carla Jean calls Sheriff Bell to to tell him where her husband is, but the line is tapped and the mexicans hear it
-"If I tell you where he called from do you give your word that no harm will come to him? I can give you my word that no harm will come to him from me. I can do that." pg. 214 ---> ironic--->she is trying to help him, but instead she puts him in danger--->this supports the theme of choices and having to deal with the fate that follows
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