Talk:Revolutionary Road

Plot summary
Rewrote it based on having just read the novel; the earlier version took a very superficial view of April Wheeler, who (as the quotation from Yates already in the article suggests) is the heroine of the book to the extent it has one. Also, I've actually summarized the plot (in very broad outline), including the conclusion. --Andersonblog (talk) 20:24, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

Is it possible to add a spoiler alert for the plot summary? I actually didn't want to know that the wife would die. Thanks

Afong Toh —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.159.78.221 (talk) 22:06, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

So is happiness a place or a state of mind. In the story, Paris was paradise and the chance to recpature or capture what may have never been there in the first place. By moving your location from a purportedly mundane city, to a new and exciting, and obviously fairytale city like Paris, April and Frank would find what they thought they had lost. Truth is they never had it in the first place. How do I know this, because I live it. I have a wife who thinks moving to a certain place will bring her the happiness she never has been able to find. She does not look inward, which is where real happiness lies but continues to look outward. Just like April, when she discovers that the move would not be a sound financial decision, she becomes depressed and loses a love that never really existed because she has decided that happiness cannot exist unless and until she is in a certain place, the place she longed to go to and the place her fantasy tells her that she will find happiness. For a while things are good and then it all begins again. In the end though she finds, as would April, had she actually gone to Paris, that she tires of that place as well and happiness for her now requires a new location or a new adventure and she would associate the lack of happiness and the resulting lack of love with the location. She will never find love becase of this, it is a constant rollercoaster for her and her mate. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cit*zen (talk • contribs) 12:44, 20 June 2011 (UTC)

Broken link
I've deleted the link to the New York Times Book Review becuase the link had broken. I've searched the New York Times website but can't find it. Original link below in case someone else can. Ceeess (talk) 14:33, 28 April 2009 (UTC)


 * New York Times Book Review: Richard Ford reviews Revolutionary Road (April 9, 2000)


 * Found it. Richard Ford's essay is at "nytimes.com", not the broken "tbns.net" link above. I've updated the URL given in the first reference in the article. --Georgeryp (talk) 06:44, 14 June 2009 (UTC)

So is happiness a place or a state of mind. In the story, Paris was paradise and the chance to recpature or capture what may have never been there in the first place. By moving their location from a purportedly mundane city, to a new and exciting, and obviously fairytale city like Paris, April and Frank would find what they thought they had lost. Truth is they never had it in the first place. How do I know this, because I live it. I have a wife who thinks moving to a certain place will bring her the happiness she never has been able to find. She does not look inward, which is where real happiness lies but continues to look outward. Just like April, when she discovers that the move would not be a sound financial decision, she becomes depressed and loses a love that never really existed because she has decided that happiness cannot exist unless and until she is in a certain place, for my wife it was South Carolina, the place she longed to go to. For a while things are good and then it all begins again. In the end though she finds, as would April, had she actually gone to Paris, that she tires of that place as well and happiness for her now requires a new location or a new adventure and she would associate the lack of happiness and the resulting lack of love with the location. She will never find love becase of this, it is a constant rollercoaster for her and her mate. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cit*zen (talk • contribs) 12:46, 20 June 2011 (UTC)

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parallels and effects
in the Supreme court decision of 1972 abortion was legalized in the US. Around the same era as the story medicinal birth control was made legal. Having lost my mother in 1962 due to a self-performed abortion of her fifth pregnancy in seven years, I was concerned about these now motherless children of the story, which in some ways was Yates' own story. an "Ice Storm" story of death due to narcissism. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:1C2:4E02:9580:69B1:A62F:14AA:2AD7 (talk) 03:23, 9 December 2021 (UTC)