Sheriff Bell believes that immature people have a hard clip turning up because they are non expected to turn up. He cites as an illustration the statistics of kids being reared by grandparents. and he wonders who will raise these children’s kids because they will non hold grandparents willing to rise up them. Loretta has taken duty for feeding the captives. breeding a love that causes them to return even after their release. Chigurh stops at a veterinarian supply shop and buys medical supplies. He so goes to a drug shop. put his auto on fire to do a distraction. and takes some drugs for his hurt leg. He goes back to the motel and physicians his lesion. He stays at the motel for five yearss. Wells goes back to the span to look into on the money instance. He sees it on the American side ; he knows that if he had brought it over to Mexico. he would hold lost it. Bell decides to drive down to Eagle Pass. and he tells his secretary. Molly. to name Loretta after he leaves. He spots a truck with a burden in the dorsum that is covered with a loose tarp that has come free. and he stops it. The truck is transporting the organic structures from the caldera. wrapped in plastic sheeting. He tells the driver to repair it.

Chigurh goes to the anteroom of the Eagle Pass motel and demands to see the registry. When the clerk tells him that he can non make that. Chigurh shoots him. He so goes to Moss’s room and finds the transponder. He believes that Moss is dead and that the Mexicans have the money. He goes to the anteroom and delaies for Carson Wells. When Wells arrives. Chigurh follows him to his room. Wells tries to do a trade with him. but Chigurh refuses and shoots him. Moss calls Odessa. and Carla Jean’s female parent answers the phone. She resists acquiring Carla Jean on the phone. Moss tells Carla Jean to go forth every bit shortly as possible. Carla Jean reminds him that her female parent is deceasing of malignant neoplastic disease. but Moss insists. She must go forth even if she has to take her female parent with her. Moss calls the figure Wells gave him. Chigurh answers the phone and tells him that the lone trade he will do is to forbear from killing Carla Jean if Moss hands over the money. Moss refuses and takes a cab to the boundary line. He is stopped and questioned by the boundary line guard but is finally let through because he is a Vietnam veteran.

Moss goes to a vesture shop to purchase new apparels. Bell arrives at the motel in Eagle Pass. The sheriff at that place tells him that the motel is traveling to be closed because there have been so many violent deaths. Bell finds the transponder in Moss’s hotel room. He tells the local sheriff that he is worried about Moss because Moss is from his county. and he is supposed to look after his people. They discuss the downward spiral of American civilization ; now school childs can purchase drugs. Sheriff Bell does non wish to speak about the Vietnam War. He lost his squad but still received a decoration. He does non wish how the veterans deserted their people. He one time read of a study of instructors in the 1930s refering the major subject jobs in school. The top jobs were speaking in category. running in the halls. and masticating gum. The major jobs in today’s schools are colza. slaying. drugs. and suicide. Peoples laugh at Bell for his indignation and state it is a mark of old age. He went to a conference one time and met a adult female who hoped that someday her girl would be free to hold an abortion. Bell told her that. the manner the state is traveling. her girl will be able to hold an abortion and have her female parent put to kip.

Chigurh goes to Houston and kills the drug trader who hired Carson Wells to kill him. As the adult male dies easy. Chigurh explains that he used bird shot to kill him so as non to interrupt the glass window. which would fall on the people below. When the adult male dies. Chigurh picks up the shell shell and leaves. Carla Jean and her female parent arrive at the coach station to go forth for El Paso. The female parent complains to the cab driver that she has malignant neoplastic disease and now she has no place. She tells Carla Jean that she predicted this would go on three old ages before. but Carla Jean points out that she did non cognize Moss three old ages before. Chigurh arrives at the place of Carla Jean’s female parent after the two adult females have left. He looks through the sleeping rooms and finds images of Carla Jean. which he puts in his pocket. He looks through the mail and picks out the phone measure. He sees that there was a call to the Terrell County Sheriff’s Department.

He sleeps at that place for the dark. so he continues to rummage and finds more mail in the desk drawer. Moss hires a cab driver to drive him down to the river. where he picks up the money instance. He so has the driver take him to San Antonio. He buys a gun and a truck and drives off down the main road. He picks up a immature miss hitchhiker and has her thrust while he sleeps. When Sheriff Bells arrives place. his married woman gives him a piece of paper with a phone figure. Carla Jean called from El Paso. He returns her call. Carla Jean offers to state him where Moss called from if Bell promises that no injury will come to him. All Bell can assure is that no injury will come to Moss from him. Carla Jean agrees to this. A adult male is listening in on Carla Jean’s phone call and Tells Chigurh where Moss is. Chigurh takes a machine gun and drives off in a new auto. a Barracuda.

Sheriff Bell does non cognize that jurisprudence enforcement has benefitted much from progresss in engineering. He prefers the old arms and constabulary autos to what he has now. He is non certain what to believe about the decease punishment either. It bothers him to hold talked with a adult male for a long clip and so walk him down to set him to decease. Many of the captives are non really smart. he believes. as in the instance of one adult male who ate his last repast but saved his sweet for his return. Many quaint sheriffs did non transport guns. Bell himself has ne’er killed anyone. and he hopes he ne’er does. He is amazed that there are no Torahs in Texas to modulate who becomes a sheriff. but the system seems to work. Moss puts Carla Jean on a coach. She is worried ; she has a bad feeling. Moss tells her he has a good feeling. so they balance out. He will name her in a few yearss. but it will hold to be from a wage phone. As he leaves. Carla Jean tells him non to ache anyone. He reminds her that she got hurt. so he can do no promises. As Bell is eating dinner with his married woman. Loretta. he receives a phone call describing a auto on fire. He invites Loretta to travel along for the drive. and they drive out to the auto. They determine it is the truck that belonged to the murdered adult male. The following forenoon. Bell and Wendell ride out on Equus caballuss. following the paths to the caldera.

They find the organic structures of the two work forces Chigurh murdered. and so they find the group of trucks where the drug trade was made. They find Moss’s truck. which they recognize. From the grounds in one of the trucks. they see that a drug cargo has been removed. They look around the country and happen Moss’s “last adult male standing. ” They deduce that Moss has the money. Later. Bell learns that the adult male who was killed in his auto was murdered with a gun that has no slugs. Chigurh paths down Moss’s place. He breaks in but finds nil but some mail. which he pockets. He checks at the office. but does non larn of Moss’s location. He goes to the garage where Moss used to work. but they do non cognize where he is. He looks at Moss’s mail and discovers a phone measure. Most of the calls are to Del Rio or Odessa. He calls Del Rio but gets no reply. When he calls Odessa. he is told that Moss is non at that place. Moss arrives in Del Rio and rents a motel room. The following twenty-four hours he buys some new apparels and medical supplies for his lesions. When he goes back to his motel. he has the driver take him to another motel because he feels leery that his room has been examined. In the forenoon. he buys tent poles. returns to his motel. and revise his scattergun. He calls his original motel and has the director keep his room for him.

Greed is at the bosom of the affair in McCarthy’s narrative. One of the more challenging facets of the novel. when I foremost read it. was the inquiry every reader asks themselves as the narrative unfolds: What would I make if I found a bag with $ 2 million in it following to a clump of dead drug traders? I think most people consider themselves to be moral persons. and that they would make the right thing the huge bulk of the clip. But $ 2 million is a serious moral trial. So as we fear for the character Llewellyn Moss. we besides empathize with his weak side about instantly. Greed is the ground the drug trafficking happens in the first topographic point. the ground why Anton Chigurh is called. and the ground why Moss is finally killed for his attempts. So to see the cardinal function greed has in the narrative. merely conceive of what would hold happened from the beginning if there had merely been the organic structures and the drugs. and there was no money at all. or Moss hadn’t found it.