Ed Tom Bell does not seem to be a fan of all the aspects of being a sheriff. Bell is content with a small town sheriff job where most cop calls end with a fist fight or an arrest. However, when the small town has a series of violent murderous cases, Bell conveys the idea that he is in a danger zone. In the third soliloquy Bell states that he does not know how to handle the situation with Chigurh because he has never had to deal with a murder on a killing spree. Bell sticks to his set of morals throughout the soliloquies and tries to avoid death to the best of his ability. This is exemplified in the first soliloquy, Bell does not enjoy the idea of putting the boy to death and he wrestles with the decision years later.
I think that McCarthy includes the soliloquies to give another point of view. The book is based from two insights the criminals and the cops; by providing insight into the two viewpoints he can create two story lines around the same plot. The soliloquies also tell the reader that each character lives by there own set of morals and the soliloquies compares Chigurh’s morals to Bell’s morals.
Great American Novels 