There’s a certain loneliness in Hopper’s work, but it’s a complicated loneliness. It isn’t that his characters are outcasts, destitute and unable to find community. Rather, when we see them, they are often turned inward as the world around them moves about, turned in on itself too. James Peacock said, “In Hopper’s works, even a buzzing city doesn’t remedy isolation, but heightens it.”16
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