The other monster Grendel meets on the moors is the dragon. The dragon is a symbolism of greed and evil, with his own lair being surrounded by riches and heritages from countless civilizations. Upon meeting the dragon, Grendel is presented a completely fatalistic view of life, where the former argues that at the end, everything is a result of a chain of accidents leading from one thing to another, and that nothing matters, because all living things must die. While Grendel cannot agree with this, it serves as a turning point in his story, and slowly comes to accept that some parts of it are indeed true.