No Country for Old Men Strength and Skill Quotes

Llewellyn just might have a bit of a hero complex. He's just an ordinary guy, after all—yeah, maybe a little smarter and tougher than your average bear, but still not cut out for taking on Anton Chigurh. In the end, he's just some poor sap who stumbled across the wrong botched drug deal at the wrong time. Being strong enough to survive Vietnam doesn't exactly equip him to take on pure evil.

Given that the bubonic plague killed about one in three people and that Chigurh, with his little coin-flip trick, should statistically be killing about one in two, we're going to go ahead and say that Chigurh is actually more dangerous than the plague. And Wells respects that. From one killer to another, he has to admire, just a little bit, for how deadly and resourceful Anton Chigurh is. But Wells has his own skill: a cocky sense of humor that helps him man up to the danger he's constantly up again. Too bad that he didn't also think to bring along a bullet-proof—er, steer-killer-proof—vest.

You can just see Carson Wells doing some fake boo-hooing here with absolutely no sympathy for Llewellyn Moss. At the end of the day, Wells is a professional who cares a lot more about money than he does about other people—and he's got the skills to back it up, or so he thinks. This time, though, he's overestimated himself. Guess there's limit to human ingenuity, especially when you match it up against something that seems pretty darn inhuman.