Bell’s ideas on change

One common theme throughout the soliloquies is Bell’s conflicting ideas about the content of his job changing. He mentions how in an earlier time crimes were much simpler and how over the course of his career the crimes he deals with are getting so extreme that he doesn’t know how to deal with them. Bell’s old age is also apparent when looking at these texts because of his dislike of change and blatant racism. Bell is unprepared to handle chasing Chigurh as he brings a new level of the criminal mind to their small town. He seems to be nervous to confront Chigurh and somewhat apprehensive about going after him. In my opinion Bell brings a sense of humanity to the police force as he is constantly questioning the practices of law enforcement. An example of this is his disapproval and questioning of executions. He’s judgmental of people’s reactions to witnessing an execution and analyses the officer’s personal opinion on executions. During the third section of the soliloquies he finds Moss’ car connecting all three aspects of the story so far. The author uses these soliloquies to make connections between the different characters. So far in the book there has not been a lot of interaction between the main characters so without the soliloquies the text would be much harder to follow.