REV ROAD- MEN AS BRUTAL OPPRESSORS OF WOMEN

Sanitised Conservativisim (critic)

Leif Bull

fantasy of victimization (critic)

Finding truth in rev road

little more than a boy, an overgrown child himself (critic)

Lewis Mumford

frank immediately feels his masculinity is being threatened, ironically by April’s lack of femininity (critic)

suburbian narratives

the right of man to relieve his sexual desire is more or less universally recognised, whereas a woman is confined to marriage (critic)

Simone de Beauvoir

I felt that way once too…

the first time you made love to me

Oh jesus. Oh jesus

to be there with April Wheeler

and whose subject was a tall, proud girl with deeper breasts and hips

than he thought fashion girls were supposed to have

and it seemed to him now that no single moment in his life had ever contained better proof of his manhood than that, if any proof were needed:

holding that tamed submissive girl and saying, oh my lovely, oh my lovely while she promised she would bear his child

Hadn’t she given him every possible

encouragement for months?

It was possible to believe that he was looking at the

most beautiful woman in the world

You in a trap! You in a trap!

Jesus, don’t make me laugh

I guess it wasn’t exactly a triumph or anything

was it?

I love you when

you’re nice

Number two, it’s sure as hell not my fault you didn’t turn out to be an actress

and the sooner you get that little piece of soap opera the better off we all are going to be

please listen. I won’t touch you. I just want to say I’m-

there isn’t anything left to say except I’m sorry

They knew what forgiveness was, they were willing to take him

for better or for worse; they loved him

At least she would have to talk and laugh in their company,

at least she would have to talk and laugh and smile at him from time to time and call him darling.

Old Helen in there is feminine as hell.

I’ve only met about half a dozen females in my life and I think you got one of them here

It didn’t even matter that bearing two children had left her

a shade too heavy in the hips and thighs

A frankly flattering, definitely feminine dress

to go wherever you go

but nothing could be done about

his hands

the very last thing in Gods world he wanted to do was apologise.

Did the swan apologise to leda? Did an eagle apologise? Did a lion apologise? Hell no.