This piece has been a hotbed for imitation and inspiration for the past 70 years. Whether it be influences in films like Blade Runner, or to the art piece Boulevard of Broken Dreams, the message is still the same (Wood). Having Nighthawks presence be so ubiquitous across so many artistic mediums, it has served as a great vehicle to begin to discuss the personally comprehensible themes he is effectively conveying in his artwork. And high on this list are two very substantial essays written by Mark Strand and Tom Slater. Although Strand spends more time analyzing the physicality, and Slater discusses more the themes of discourse and anti-urbanism, they both press the understanding that Hopper’s work is conveying his own, very real, feelings of loneliness, isolation, and the life-long journey to seek out the answers to free oneself from the tyrannical grip of these powerful