I was watching an old Charlie Chaplin movie the other day and I thought Charlie would make a great Egg man. Little Egg Tramp, you can look for the meaning behind the painting, yes it may come across at first as humorous, quirky, flippant or clever, yet there is a deeper meaning we all have something dark we want to hide and the fried egg is like a mask humans wear to obscure their feelings and emotions he is hiding something from his past he doesn't want to reveal.