REV ROAD CRITICS

leif bull - both knox the company and Frank’s job within it are emblematic

of the white collar world

leif bull - Knox business machine becomes a site of linguistic entropy where

words are put to work until they lose all meaning

leif bull - imagined scenarios are clearly informed by

the kind of sanitised conservativism he otherwise rails against

Louis Mumford - little more than a boy

an overgrown man himself

finding truth on Revolutionary road -

fantasy of victimization

suburbian narratives - Frank immediately feels his masculinity

is being threatened, ironically by April’s lack of femininity

Simone De Beauvoir - the right of man to relieve his sexual desire

is more or less openly recognized whereas woman is confined within marriage

The Feminine Mystique - I’ve tried everything

women are supposed to do

The feminine mystique - the suburban housewife - she was the dream image

of the young American women

Feminine Mystique - They learned that truly

feminine women do not want careers

Feminine Mystique - I seem to sleep so much

I didn’t know why I should be so tired

Simone de Beauvior - One is not born

but rather becomes a woman

David Riesman - problem that masculinity faces

is located within the domestic sphere

Coniglio - Even here, fatherhood seems to generate little satisfaction

if they are one of the joys of life he sure doesn’t show it

Yates - most human beings are inescapably

alone, and therein lies their tragedy

Patrizio - Yates condemns the hypocrisy of america that claims freedom for all

while restricting opportunities for existence outside societal stereotypes