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      • The Revolutionary Road (2008 Film) Community Note includes chapter-by-chapter summary and analysis, character list, theme list, historical context, author biography and quizzes written by community members like you.
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  2. The Revolutionary Road (2008 Film) Community Note includes chapter-by-chapter summary and analysis, character list, theme list, historical context, author biography and quizzes written by community members like you.

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  3. The Revolutionary Road Community Note includes chapter-by-chapter summary and analysis, character list, theme list, historical context, author biography and quizzes written by community members like you.

    • Richard Yates
  4. The Revolutionary Road (2008 Film) Community Note includes chapter-by-chapter summary and analysis, character list, theme list, historical context, author biography and quizzes written by community members like you.

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    • 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...

  5. Set in 1955, the novel focuses on the hopes and aspirations of Frank and April Wheeler, self-assured Connecticut suburbanites who see themselves as very different from their neighbors in the Revolutionary Hill Estates.

  6. Revolutionary Road. Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1961. A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more. Download PDF.

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