Summary and Analysis:
-In the Bell's opening, he hints that Chigurh has killed Carla Jean
- I like what Bell says in the beginning:
--"My daddy always told me just to do the best you knew how and tell the truth. He said there was nothin to set a man's mind at ease like wakin up in the morning and not havin to decide who you were. And if you done something wrong just stand up and say you done it and say you're sorry and get on with it. Don't haul stuff around with you."-->I think that if everyone did this, society would be far better off. And it is interesting to note this came from a man of an older generation, when the world was a better place. This ties into the title, that the current world is not one suited for older people of a different time
-Chigurh goes and returns the money that Moss had to the man it belongs to. He tells the man:
--"Well, I'd say that they purpose of my visit is simply to establish my bonafides. As someone who is an expert in a difficult field. As someone who is completely reliable and completely honest. Something like that." pg. 251
--"The prospect of outsized profits leads people to exaggerate their own capabilities. In their minds. They pretend to themselves that they are in control of events where perhaps they are not. And it is always one's stance upon uncertain ground that invites the attentions of one's enemies. Or discourages it." pg. 253
-->I just thought these quotes were interesting insights into Chigurh's character and help to explain him more
-Chigurh goes to kill Carla Jean after her mother's funeral. This is a very important passage for understanding Chigurh and his role and process in the theme
-He tells her:
--"There is a reason for everything." pg. 256
--He does a coin toss but it doesn't save her
--"I got here the same way the coin did. For things at a common destination there is a common path. Not always easy to see. But there is." pg. 259
--"Every moment in your life is a turning and every one a choosing. Somewhere you made a choice. All followed to this. The accounting is scrupulous. The shape is drawn. No line can be erased....A person's path through the world seldom changes and even more seldom will it change abruptly. And the shape of your path was visible from the beginning." pg. 256 *** this is a very important quote in my opinion that explains the basis and foundations of Chigurh's actions. And he makes sure she understands this before he kills her
--Chigurh gets into a car wreck
-Bell goes to his Uncle Ellis's house
--Ellis tells him, "You sign on for the ride you probably think you got at least some notion of where the ride is going. But you might not." pg 265
--"All the time you spend tryin to get back what's been took from you there's more goin out the door. After a while you just try and get a tourniquet on it." pg. 267 --> saying you have to deal with what the choice you have made have dealt you
- Bell tells him what happened when he was fighting in the war and we get the since that Bell is living on borrowed time.
--"When you're called on like that you have to make up your mind that you'll live with the consequences. But you dont know what the consequences will be."pg. 278
--"I didn't know you could steal your own life. And I didn't know you could steal your own life. An dI didn;t know that it would bring you no more benefit than about anything else you might steal. I think I done the best with it I knew how but it still wasn't mine." pg. 278
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