[2] This painting depicts a Mobil gas station alongside a road, and a man alone working at a pump as evening falls.

The attendant's outfit (vest, white shirt, tie and clothes) as well as the lighting brings a kind of priestly aspect to the picture.

[3] The painting also depicts details of the fuel pump, sign and electric lighting, and the dark gray asphalt road in perspective, opposing the nature present in the edge of a green pine forest, on the left, with tall yellow grass in front of it, the acacia visible beyond the station office, and the straw turning reddish on the edge of the roadway.

[4] Since 1927, the year when he acquired a Dodge and then traveled through the United States, the painter had made several paintings with the road as a recurring subject.

The ambivalence between civilization and nature remains frequent in other similar Hopper's paintings, which ultimately represent neither the city nor the countryside.