Document Type
Thesis
Degree
Bachelor of Arts in English
Advisor
James Tackach, Ph.D.
Abstract
While many view the 1950s as a pleasant decade in American history when middle class families lived happily in their suburban homes, this image of the time period fails to acknowledge the pressure people felt to fit this supposedly perfect family model. Writers of the 1960s, Richard Yates and Sylvia Plath, illustrate that people had to conform to the nuclear family structure in their respective novels Revolutionary Road and The Bell Jar. Even though their characters criticize the suburban family model, they ultimately must conform, or face the fatal consequences of nonconformity.
Recommended Citation
Garcia, Kaitlin, ""How did we ever get into this strange little dream world“: Conforming to the Nuclear Family Model in Yates’s RevolutIonary Road and Plath ’s The Bell Jar" (2017). English Theses. 134.
https://docs.rwu.edu/english_theses/134
