Please For the Love of God Explain What's Happening and Why
It's certainly been a crazy ride. After a brutal and blood-soaked 309 pages, the novel is finally over. However, this raises the question of what does this all even mean ? First, let's examine the title: No Country for Old Men . The title itself can be considered a major theme for the novel, in which times are changing and the world is getting bleaker and more violent. This is portrayed very well by the Chigurh and Bell. Bell being the older generation(s), Chigurh being the newer generation(s); where Chigurh is violent and hyper-aggressive, possessing no manners and no remorse for his actions, Bell is calm and level-headed, who is always very polite and does things the old-fashioned way (no pun intended). Bell's retirement can also be seen as part of this theme, in which after having dealt with such a macabre case, it is rather fitting that he puts his career out to pasture. After the introduction of this new sort of crime, crime in which parts of it have no reasonable m...