Examples Of Greed In No Country For Old Men

Is it possible to cheat death? If true, then death must lose its status as the great equalizer. If death cannot be cheated, then how strong is the human will to stand against it? No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy, illustrates the relationship between human will and greed with death. Throughout the book, Llewelyn Moss struggles with greed and endangers himself and his family. He attempts to cheat death and keep his fortune. As always though, death wins over the will to live, and Llewelyn gets what’s coming to him. In today’s society, greed is prevalent and so is an extremely strong sense of self preservation. These two contradict each other, however, as greed is inherently self destructive and leads to either a miserable life, or an early death. In No Country For Old Men, Llewelyn Moss stumbles upon a drug deal gone wrong, and takes a large sum of money from the scene. His actions result in the cartel sending a hitman after him, and a manhunt ensues. Moss walks a fine line between death and triumph, attempting to keep both the money he finds and his own life. He becomes so preoccupied with keeping the money that he

Greed (in this instance, another name for relentless ambition) explains much of the cheating on college campuses. Greed is responsible for outsourcing, which is incapable of comprehending that the employees who lose their jobs are also the consumers who sustain the economy. Greed generates the reckless ventures that in part caused the bubble of the late '90s. Greed causes expensive wars that shatter the budget. Greed is the reason that only the wealthy are benefitting so far from the economic upturn that is allegedly happening. Greed drives loan sharks. Greed is responsible for the success of big box stores that tax the poor with low wages to provide bargains for affluent suburban shoppers.