Symbolism, Imagery, Allegory
The Shirt off His Back
We need to mention one interesting bit of parallelism between Llewelyn Moss and Anton Chigurh: both men buy a shirt or jacket from a stranger while doing something illegal.
Llewelyn stumbles over the Mexico border, bleeding, desperate to hide stolen drug money in the river. To disguise his bloody body, he pays a man $100 for his coat. Later, after Chigurh kills Carla Jean, he is in a car accident. Desperate to escape, he pays a boy $100 for a kid's shirt so that he can wrap his broken arm with it.
Seeing Llewelyn and Chigurh do something so similar makes us wonder if they have more in common than we think. After all, both men are fiercely determined, and both will stop at nothing to reach their goals—they just have different goals that happen at odds with one another. Is any of it legal? Nope.