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April has conceived of a plan to move to Europe. There, she says, Frank can figure out his true calling, and she will work as a secretary. She says that she blocked him from finding himself when she got pregnant with Jennifer and wanted to give herself an abortion.
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April’s independent streak is disturbing to Frank. He cannot seem to understand that April has a strong personality that resists domination. Instead, he sees dominating her as a goal, one that will prove his strength and worth as a man.
- Suburban Novel
- Coming of Age, 1930–50
- The Petrified Forest
Most of Revolutionary Road takes place in the fictional Connecticut suburb of Revolutionary Hill Estates. Despite the wealth and pleasant surroundings of the neighborhood, its residents often lead lives of quiet despair. Frank and April Wheelermock their suburban neighbors for their materialism and small-mindedness, then realize they've adopted the...
Frank and April Wheeler grew up in the 1930s, passed through adolescence in the 1940s, and became young adults in the 1950s. Their coming-of-age process parallels a turbulent time for the United States in the first half of the 20th century. Some scholars have argued that the country itself "came of age" during this same period, painfully growing th...
In the opening chapter of Revolutionary Road, April Wheeler and Shep Campbell act in a community production of The Petrified Forest, a play written in 1935 by American playwright Robert Sherwood (1896–1955). The play and the novel have much in common: Yates's text draws on the dialogue and imagery of the play, as well as its themes. Both works exam...
No marriage presented to us is a stable one, especially the central focus, Frank and April. Yates examines what makes or breaks a married relationship under a microscope for the reader, and shows us the tragedy of misunderstanding and miscommunication after the novel.
- Richard Yates
April asks if he told her about the affair because he thinks it will make her jealous or fall in love with him. She says that she figured out this week that she doesn’t love him and never has. Then she goes into the living room.
Richard Yates’s novel Revolutionary Road was published in 1961 and was a finalist for the National Book Award in 1962, along with Joseph Heller’s Catch-22 and Walker Percy’s The Moviegoer, which won the award.
April, overwhelmed by the situation, suffers something of an identity crisis and sleeps with her neighbor Shep Campbell, while Frank resurrects his relationship with Maureen. Having attempted to self-abort her pregnancy, April is rushed to the hospital where she dies from blood loss.
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