heading Straight
Alvin Straight's journey is very similar yet very different from most road trips. He took to the road with a purpose, as many people do. The purpose being that his brother was in very poor health, and his was deteriorating. In order to find peace in his last times on Earth, it was most important for him to embark on this rural journey, just him and his lawnmower. He is determined to travel alone from the beginning, which is symbolic to his desire for inner peace in relations to his brother and finding peace in the world around him. The rural roads allow him to be truly alone for the majority of the trip. This trip is also one of the longer trips that we witness, due to the speed capacity on the lawnmower and the distance he is traveling. He is a brave old man who needed to reconcile his past and he did so once he sat on his brother's porch with him.