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Title: <\/strong>Revolutionary Road (the first chapter)<\/p>\n

By:<\/strong> Richard Yates<\/p>\n

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Pay attention, class. Note the masterful manner in which Richard Yates opens Revolutionary Road<\/a><\/i>, his coruscating first novel of suburban angst and the influence of the Great American Dream. It is 1955—heyday of the men in grey flannel suits, with The Feminist Mystique<\/i> eight years away – and a community theatre in western Connecticut is readying for its debut show. The play they have chosen is The Petrified Forest<\/i>, an indicator of what’s to come.\n<\/p>\n

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April Wheeler appears, in a vibrant performance that will ominously go downhill. Her husband, Frank, sits “biting his fist in the last row of the audience”. Others emerge: the blundering Shep Campbell and the determined-to-be-nice Helen Givens, providing a foretaste of their roles in the carefully-plotted book.<\/p>\n

Observe the aptness, the irony: a book that shows up suburban pretence starts with a theatrical performance that, by definition, is pretence, too. (Correct, class: the scene is a version of T.S. Eliot’s “objective correlative”, which Yates frequently spoke of to his Iowa writing program students.)<\/p>\n

Scrutinise now the pitch-perfect sentences: realism undercut by farce; satirical but not completely. The author cares enough about his characters’ predicaments not to be totally derisive. <\/p>\n

Oh, and the best part? After the chapter is over, you have the rest of this brilliant, tragic novel about the betrayal of promise to look forward to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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