Sheriff Bell is defeated in all of his objectives: he is unable to save Moss or catch the killer, as the body count continues to rise, when Chigurh kills a competing hit man, his employer, and Carla Jean. While still on the run, one of the Mexican gangs kills Moss and Chigurh recovers the money.
However, Llewelyn Moss thinks that it is too late. Sheriff Bell intervenes with Carla Jean Moss, to try to convince her husband to return the money, in a bid to save the Mosses’ lives. A shootout in the streets between Moss, the killer Chigurh, and a Mexican drug gang leaves both Moss and Chigurh wounded. Moss runs across southwestern Texas, and sends his wife away to stay with her mother, not realizing that the money case has a radio transponder in it, which leads his killers to him. All three parties are chasing Llewelyn Moss, who steals the drug money from the massacre site. As he attempts to solve the murders, he finds himself following in the footsteps of a bizarre psychopathic killer-Anton Chigurh-and two competing groups of Mexican drug dealers. Sheriff Bell finds himself investigating the massacre of eight drug dealers, and a subsequent trail of other murders by a serial killer armed with a slaughterhouse pneumatic gun. Comparisons can also be made to William Faulkner’s Southern gothic prose in its themes of the paltry, transitory achievements of man and man’s inevitable fall from grace. No Country for Old Men also pays homage to several American fiction genres, such as the noir crime fiction of the 1950’s, with its spare prose, laconic characterizations, and meticulously described violence, as exemplified by Dashiell Hammett. These themes are also evident in McCarthy’s novel, and are particularly evident in Sheriff Ed Tom Bell’s lamentations-on the eve of his retirement-about the fallen, decayed society he finds himself protecting. The poem comments upon the transitory glories of youth and the flesh and the tragedy of the inevitable fall into old age and death.
The title of the novel comes from the first line of the poem “Sailing to Byzantium” by William Butler Yeats.
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