Linda said I had a friend who was diagnosed with cancer before retiring and died ten days later. The sailboat he bought stayed in the driveway forever and I didn't want mine to stay in the driveway. Swankie said that my cancer cells have spread to my brain, and the doctor said that I only have seven or eight months to live. I want to see the swallows flying. After the young swallows break their shells, the white eggshells fall into the water and float along the water. All the nomads in the play, no matter how peaceful and friendly they are when they get along with each other, are more or less sad when they are alone and in love. Therefore, they are not longing for poetry and distant places and abandoning everything, but self-imposed exile after sadness and disappointment. Their nomadism is not for pursuit, but rather for escape. When you have been escaping until the end can be foreseen, you can let go of your attachments and return to the beginning. Like Swankie said before driving off to find her far away. Perhaps only death is the best medicine for grief, because it can finally end. Fern works all over the place, but can only meet the minimum living needs, and when the RV breaks down and needs to be repaired, she can't do anything. Being alive with them does not have an extended meaning, but a literal meaning.
Fern went to Dave to explain that she was struggling and that she wanted to give a chance to change. But facing the friendly Dave family, she fled back to the car on the first night. Dave could sense that he cared about Fern the first time he saw her, but it was also obvious that Fern was avoiding him. And this kind of avoidance is not incomprehensible, on the contrary, it is the fear of falling into it after feeling it. People who have fallen in pain will be afraid to climb again. He said that Bo had no contact with his parents, and had no children, and that if she left, Bo would be as if he never existed. But vice versa, if the connection with Bo is really abandoned, then Fern's own existence will become meaningless. So she took that connection on the road, blurring the line between losing everything and having everything.
Fern has Dave's invitation to live together, and her sister's plea to come back to live, but she gave up Dave, who was a friendly family, and gave up her sister, who was affectionate, and only kept her husband's memory and father's plate, and her own A battered car. Fern chose the latter between new possibilities and old certainties, because the latter would never let her down.
Fern had indeed changed. She returned to Empire, dealt with the memories there, and stopped taking the empty house as a psychological comfort. But she still chose to drive alone on the road. Let go of the past, but not choose to start over. She would drive, on the road, until the end of her life.
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