He no longer has to make sense of the senselessness of the world as this world is no longer for men like him. The tone of his voice and expressions on his face don't come off as pained and conflicted as they did during his conversation with Ellis. You could argue that this is a rather bleak outlook on his future, but Ed Tom takes comfort in the dream. Watching his father ride past him holding fire, Ed Tom finds comfort in knowing that he will soon be with his father once again. While the first dream seems to be Ed Tom's way of coming to terms with his past (losing the money), this second and more detailed dream is the retired sheriff's way of letting go on and accepting his future. And in the dream I knew that he was goin' on ahead and he was fixin' to make a fire somewhere out there in all that dark and all that cold, and I knew that whenever I got there he would be there. and he had his blanket wrapped around him and his head down and when he rode past I seen he was carryin' fire in a horn the way people used to do and I could see the horn from the light inside of it. It was cold and there was snow on the ground and he rode past me and kept on goin'. In a soft voice, the recently retired sheriff states:
The second dream, much longer than the first, involves Ed Tom and his father riding in the dark of night on horseback through a mountain pass. What's The Meaning Behind His Second Dream? Following the conversation, and the dream, Ed Tom seems to be relieved of his pain, at least on that front.
The soon-to-be-retired sheriff is overcome with failure until his uncle basically tells him that while you're trying to get back what's already gone, there's more being taken from you. A few scenes earlier, Ed Tom visits his uncle Ellis after finding Moss' body in the El Paso motel. This is Ed Tom coming to terms with the pain and grief he feels for not being able to retrieve the drug money or prevent the unnecessary death of Llewelyn Moss earlier in the movie. When pressed on the first, Ed Tom says:Īnyway, first one I don't remember too well but it was about meeting him in town somewhere, he's gonna give me some money. Instead of ending with a big chase scene, shootout, or other instances of violence, No Country For Old Men concludes with a quiet, two-and-a-half-minute scene in which Ed Tom Bell tells his wife Lorreta (Tess Harper) about two dreams he had about his father. What's The Meaning Behind Sheriff Bell's First Dream?
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