Document Type

Thesis

Degree

Bachelor of Arts in English

Advisor

James Tackach, Ph.D.

Abstract

Although a great deal of scholarship on Richard Yates’ novel, Revolutionary Road (1961) focuses on patriarchal oppression of women, this thesis explores the process and causes of Frank Wheeler’s painful emasculation. His marital relationship is part of the problem. His wife April relentlessly questions and undermines his masculinity. This same dynamic is echoed again in Frank’s relationship to society and to suburbia itself – which both privilege mass anonymity over individual identity.

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