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- Brought up in an affluent setting by aunts, because her hard-partying parents did not want her, April wants to feel that she fits in among people who live a glamorous life like the one she imagined her parents led. When she first meets Frank, April believes that he is an intellectual who can introduce her to that world.
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When she first meets Frank, April believes that he is an intellectual who can introduce her to that world. She gives up her hopes of becoming an actress to marry him. She does not want to have children until she is in her late-twenties, but is convinced by Frank not to abort an accidental pregnancy, going on to have two children.
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Frank feels threatened by April mowing the lawn, because he sees it as hard labor that is supposed to be done by a husband. He is especially self-conscious about this when Helen arrives and he sees her notice that he is not playing the husband’s role as she would expect.
When April says she doesn’t understand why there is a moral reason not to have an abortion, she adopts the same non-conformist attitude Frank often does. But Frank likes for women to admire this attitude in him—as when he told Maureen his thoughts about society—but not hold it themselves.
Mar 24, 2020 · On the night out to tell the Givings about their decision not to leave for France in Revolutionary Road, April has sex with Shep in the car. In the scene after that, Frank confesses about his infidelity to April but she remains quiet about her own infidelity.
April is the novel’s other important protagonist. Her story and outcome are no less important than Frank’s, but the narrator tells the story much more from his point of view than hers. However, her decisions and fate are strictly intertwined with Frank’s. Like Frank, she fills the antiheroine trope. There is much to admire and revere in ...
April is an intelligent amateur actress with contempt for many of her suburban neighbors. As a young woman, she meets Frank at a party and finds him fascinating. Later in their marriage, however, she regrets spending years with a man she never truly loved.
Frank and April’s inability to achieve their aspirations leads to bitterness, resentment, and ultimately, the unraveling of their marriage. The ending serves as a sobering reminder of the consequences of sacrificing one’s dreams for the sake of conformity.
