The spatial dynamics of Forrest Gump establish a binary opposition between the stable, pastoral home of Greenbow, Alabama, and the chaotic, shifting nowhere of modern America. Forrest's home is an architectural anchor, a grand Victorian house that remains virtually unchanged throughout decades of social upheaval. For Forrest, this space represents absolute moral and emotional certainty; it is where his mother's wisdom is absolute and where his identity is secure. Jenny, conversely, is stripped of her home by her father's abuse, rendering her a perpetual exile. Her journey across America—from college dorms to strip clubs, hippie communes, and drug dens—is a desperate, failed search for a surrogate home. Every location she inhabits is transient and unstable, reflecting her lack of an internal anchor. She can only find peace when she returns to Greenbow, first to destroy her childhood home by throwing rocks at it, and finally to build a brief, quiet life with Forrest. By contrasting Forrest's geographic stasis with Jenny's frantic mobility, the film theorizes that home is not merely a physical place, but an internal state of grace. Forrest carries his home within him wherever he goes, which is why he remains uncorrupted by the world, while Jenny must heal her internal trauma before she can finally find her way back to dry land.■