The Revolutionary Road Sparknotes

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Richard Yates’ “Revolutionary Road” thematically illustrates the feeling of women being trapped in conformity due to stereotypes. In Betty Friedan’s “The Feminine Mystique”, Friedan goes into depth on how women in the 1950s faced an even more oppressive culture. Yates character, April Wheeler, engages in outlandish activities, which represent her endeavors to attest what little freedom and control she can have with the regulation she encounters both as an individual from the American suburbs and as a 1950s housewife. This is embodied when April expresses that she never wanted to get pregnant right away and that her vision of a family came a little too soon. Another example is when her husband Frank Wheeler constantly tells her to …show more content…

It is also presented in April’s suicide which can be seen as a frantic handle at trying to be flexible in dealing with a double-dealing American culture fixated on containing it’s individuals under the appearance of opportunity. It’s also presented in the introduction of the book where April has discovered a calling past the drudgery of cooking and cleaning and watching over youngsters, and her rural group has seen her for it. However, Yates soon disseminates this hallucination; as the play starts to go into disrepair, so does April's façade. Richard Yates’ “Revolutionary Road” thematically articulates how women feel trapped in conformity due to stereotypes, which demands the neglect of social …show more content…

It talks about the lives of a few housewives from around the United States who were troubled in spite of living in material solace and being hitched with children. Furthermore, Friedan scrutinized the ladies' magazine, ladies' training framework and sponsors for making this across-the-board picture of “idealistic” ladies. The deleterious impacts incited by this picture were that it limited ladies to strictly the local circle and drove numerous women to lose their own identities. Betty Friedan initially talks about the feeling of control relating particularly to ladies of this period. "The issue that has no name," as Friedan puts it, is the "sense of dissatisfaction" ladies found with their unfulfilling lives (15). Specifically, she tends to the predicament of the rural housewife choked by social desires and caught by her white picket fence. In spite of the fact that the issue was, to a great extent, overlooked or slighted for quite a while, "it is no longer possible to ignore that voice, to dismiss the desperation of so many American women" (26). The double tightening influences of social and sexual control squeezed upon after war American ladies and introduced themselves as a rival to the opportunity of these ladies in the public arena. This regulation must be evaded by embraced assorted parts with expectations of discovering one that the two

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