She just wants to get through the day. She is on the road to nothing. She's going nowhere quickly in life. The Jew who breaks custom by speaking to her, a Samaritan, gently draws her back into a life of meaning. This is the living water he gives that slacks her eternal thirst.
Life is drudgery without eternal hope.
Jesus Christ gives us this hope. With him in our lives, every action of our lives has meaning, even the simple chore of getting water from a well. The current event report that the Lord gives in the Gospel of Luke from the C cycle includes the massacre of Galileans by Pontius Pilate's soldiers during a Temple ceremony. Galilee was a political hot bed. Many Galileans were members of the Zealots party, determined to secure Jewish independence from Rome at all costs.