Revolutionary Road
Rebellion's named street
Revolutionary Road is a 1961 novel by Richard Yates about a young couple trapped in suburban conformity, widely considered a masterwork of mid-century American fiction.
The 2008 film adaptation starred Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet.
The title has become shorthand for the quiet desperation beneath postwar American domesticity: Their marriage had a Revolutionary Road quality—all surface perfection hiding deep unhappiness.
- suburbiaResidential areas outside cities
- white picket fenceTraditional property divider
- disillusionmentBitter loss of faith
- 1950sDecade after WWII
- mid-century modernPostwar design movement
marriage · Kate Winslet · Leonardo DiCaprio · Sam Mendes · Connecticut · trapped · American Dream · despair · conformity · abortion · hopelessness · domesticity · suffocating · quiet desperation · facade · breakdown · Yates · tragedy
Revolutionary RoadOn the Road
Beat Generation travelogue
The Great Gatsby · Eat Pray Love · Wild · The Alchemist · Walden
Revolutionary Roadredemption narrative
Tale of moral recovery
happy ending · Little Miss Sunshine · hope · catharsis · romantic comedy
Revolutionary RoadGreenwich Village
Manhattan's bohemian quarter
Beat Generation · San Francisco · Paris · downtown · commune
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