No Country For Old Men By Cormac Mccarthy

Although Ben Franklin is dead, he is still prevalent in American lives but not because of his kite experiments. Since 1914, Ben Franklin has been the face of the one hundred dollar bill, which is a bill associated with wealth. In Cormac McCarthy’s novel No Country for Old Men, set in the 1980s, a man by the name of Llewelyn Moss comes across the remnants of a drug deal gone wrong, which leads him to a satchel filled with drug money. That money was worth millions of dollars, and the bills used were hundred dollar ones. Once Moss comes across this money, he takes it and lives his life on the run from the drug cartel who hires Anton Chigurh to kill Moss, and retrieve the money. While Moss attempts to dodge Chigurh's persistent hunting, he encounters

While Chigurh’s verbal response is curious, his nonverbal actions are intriguing as well. At the beginning of this scene, there is a simile, describing how the man “stacked the change before him,” similar to how a “dealer places chips” and Chigurh doesn’t take “his eyes from him” (53). In parallel, Moss much later in the novel is described when looking at photographs “like a player checking his hole cards,” as if a poker opponent in Chigurh’s game (157). While these descriptions happen in spread out scenes within the novel, the way No Country for Old Men incorporates poker similes like these, adds subtext to what role the characters have in the novel and what their mannerisms reveal. These mannerisms, the lack of looking at a dealer when placing chips, the nervous player looking at his cards, are clearly displayed in the poker scene of “Casino Royale” with James Bond and Le Chiffre. Once James Bond takes a seat at the poker table, he begins by looking at his opponent and his opponent only: Le Chiffre. While the dealer places chips, similar to Chigurh, Bond does not take his eyes off of his opponent, he doesn’t even glance at his