Painting

The Morning Sun painting by Edward Hopper shows a women in a sitting position on her bed facing towards her bedroom window. The bedroom window's vertical blind is open through which natural light enters into the bedroom scene.

As shown in the building outside the window the scene is in a city context. We get the feeling of enclosure within the women's mind. There are two level's of enclosure within this painting. In the mind of the women in the painting, there are two enclosure's that she will awake to everytime the morning sun rises; the enclosure of her context and the enclosure of her small room.

The women's facial expression indicates the feeling of loneliness as a result of the city life. She will ever be enclosed from nature. The morning sun is not a feeling of hope rather or hapiness as we can see from her facial expression. Rather the morning sun is the reality that she will never be able to escape her context maybe due to the fact she cannot financially. Her only natural escape is the glimpses of the morning sun.