Illusion of control

The novel conveys many situations of fate vs. choice. One big example is Moss when he finds the money and decides to take it. Now, it was Moss' choice to take the money, but it was fate that led him to it in my point of view. Since Moss chose to take the money, this also led to the actions and situations that take place throughout the novel which is tied with fate. Chigurh is also a victim of fate vs. choice. He says things throughout the book that makes everything seem like fate and not so much choice. One thing he said was, "For things at a common destination, there is a common path. Not always easy to see. But there." This line shows for a fact that Chigurh does not choose to do things. It is his fate to be a criminal as he admits it and does not hide his outlaw self to people he faces. Carla Jean is a participant along with Chigurh whenever the scene takes place of Chigurh going to kill her after her husband, Moss, is dead. He comes to see her and says how he kept his word to Moss that he was going to kill her regardless that Moss is dead or not, it was his fate to kill her. Chigurh flips a coin to give Carla Jean some hope, choice, and fate to have a life. Carla Jean didn't have to participate in this choosing, but she did leading her choice of calling the coin and being wrong which led to the fate of her dying. Now Bell isn't as deep as the rest of them of fate vs. choice, but in the book he talks about to his uncle that he chose to leave his comrades during war to live. This is an argument of either fate or choice. Since Bell made that choice during the war, he has been making this choice in his own career of being a sheriff by not helping a lot during this investigation and letting bad things happen. Bell knows so much more information on all of this than most people and chooses to not help. This situation is not fate, it is Bell's choice to live and that is not giving up anything to sacrifice for innocent people. All of this ties in with the complexity theory of fate vs. choice. Since the world is so complex, things lead to other certain things, but we don't know these "things" that lead to any of things that happen. Since all of this is so complex, no one really has an answer of things being people's fate or choice, it is just the illusion of control.

Trapped and innocent vs. trapped and insane

Women are known to be great caregivers, very nurturing and mother-like. In A Doll's House, Nora isn't much of a mother in this story, she's more of a teenage companion to her kids I would say. She plays with them, but never really shows motherly instincts in anyway. As for the women in The Yellow Wallpaper, she can't even see her child due to her psychological problems, but she continues to care for her child in spirit and thinks about him often. I believe that the baby is really dead and the doctor in the asylum is lying to her about how healthy he is, making her think he is alive and well. When I first read The Yellow Wallpaper, I thought it connected to A Doll's House, with the husband/doctor giving them nicknames or bird names and making them feel inferior without them even knowing it. Instead, reading further into The Yellow Wallpaper, it is about a woman in an asylum with great psychological issues. She is so obsessed with this yellow wallpaper in her room and can't seem to get it off of her mind. She rubs on it, stares at it, and practically even talks to it. This lengthens her issues a great deal, especially once I realized that she was the women in the wallpaper... it was her shadow. This woman believed it was another woman trapped inside wallpaper and tried to get her out so badly, and ending up hanging herself from the obsession of this "wallpaper woman". I thought it was a very intriguing story as it made a huge plot twist the farther I read into it. Now A Doll's House good as well, it actually made me irritated when Torvald kept acting like he was so superior and could boss everybody around him to the ground. Nora was a very sweet lady and she did everything to make Torvald happy and Torvald showed how much he loved Nora, but in a disgusting and childish way that didn't make it very appealing. Both stories relate in the way the men were treating the women, making them inferior to them and talking to them like puppy dogs. They also compare by them both being trapped in a house, but one is crazy while the other is a normal go lucky wife, treating her husband the way he wants to be treated. They contrast in the way of The Yellow Wallpaper being about a woman who starts off innocent, but ends up crazy in the end, while A Doll's House, it is a normal woman that is living a normal life, but trapped by her husband.