The background of the painting brings the whole work together as one idea. The sun has set in the background. It has died, just as every human will inevitably pass away. The horrified crowd walks away from death, avoids it, while the lone figure stares at the coming night and acknowledges its imminence. The man, the existentialist of the painting, knows of his separation from the crowd, and understands that death is unavoidable. All lines of the painting point the eye towards the back of the painting, the place where the crowds flee from, the place where the man watches, and the place where the sun dies....