What does the end of the movie castaway mean or symbolize?

Question

i just watched the movie castaway and thought the ending was pretty good but i didnt get what it meant. so he delivered the package and completed his goal to a farm looking house and left the note but in the yard there is a statue of the golden wings logo (is this the fedex president's house) and at the end the girl gives him directions and has the same symbol of fedex on the back of her truck what does this mean??

Answer 1

The symbol of the wings is what kept him going this entire time. He felt drawn to the logo and couldn't bring himself to open the package, perhaps even promising himself that someday he would return it to the owner (which he did). The package had the logo on it because it was this particular woman's symbol, and you get the idea that perhaps he was meant to be led to this woman all along, and you are left wondering if when he turned down the road after her he was going back to her farm...maybe to start a new life. But it's all a mystery...you aren't meant to know exactly.

Answer 2

If you will recall, the beginning of the movie begins with that package leaving the farm. The screen showed the complete wing symbol. In the end when he returned the package the wing symbol was in half. You 'll also recall her husband was in russia having an affair, thus the half symbol. She shows up at the "crossroads". The rest is up to you what he did! Did he go back to the house?? Thats up to your imagination.

Answer 3

OK. This symbol was actually on a package that washed ashore with Tom Hanks. He didn't open this one, though, because he was intrigued with the symbol (the wings). This you probably already know.

Because he had no way of knowing who resided at that house, being no one was home when he first arrived and knocked on the door. It was ironic that the woman in the truck that stopped to briefly give Hanks directions was the woman that resided at that house, hense the wings on the truck. So, he ended up meeting her.

Answer 4

Don't know about the wings. I just always figured he kept the one package to hang onto hope of being rescued or getting back to his friends and family. As long as he had that one package that he needed to deliver, he could hold on.