“You don’t have to do this”: Cormac McCarthy’s No Country for Old Men and the Courage to Be
What drives Anton Chigurh to kill Carla Jean, and why does Sheriff Bell fail his community? Earlier studies read these questions through the anxieties of meaninglessness and death. This article adds a third, the anxiety of self-condemnation, drawing on Paul Tillich’s The Courage to Be (1952).