It also dealt a lot with the idea and expectation to be "special" or "better than" and how that was actually extremely limiting to the characters to find happiness, as you point out, especially with the character of Frank. I think he was being satirical about the concept of suburban malaise, the human tendency to blame your problems on anything but yourself. I think reading it purely through the lens of suburban malaise is limiting and not what the author was trying to do. Is it just a critique of a certain stratum of postwar American society and their delusions? Or does something more go into your interpretation of the text?Įxactly, it's the psychological perception that the book has that makes it special. While I appreciated the novel's humour, and found it easy to read and with many memorable moments, I was wondering whether I am missing something. Though I did enjoy the way that abortion was a major topic, as I've not seen it treated in literature before and it did make me reconsider my understanding of it. April, with her own complexes, is no better.
In the story he just lurches from masculinity crisis to masculinity crisis. Frank's whole life as a family man seems to be overshadowed by his military days - the one period of his life when everything was clear and organised and he was undeniably a Man. The experience of the Second World War has left its mark on many of the men. Everyone thinks they are better than others, and there is a high level of atomisation in the society. People drink a lot, smoke a lot, and have a lot of affairs. The story depicts the identity crisis of suburban Americans in the 1950s. I picked up Yates because a couple of people on the subreddit had praised him, but I am not quite sure what I am looking at. I am not quite sure what to make of Revolutionary Road, Yates' first novel.
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