Think Annette Benning in American Beauty, or Scarlette O’hara pre-war. The utterances of Christianity viewed as anything other than a kind of nutty refrain–“Save me, man…” in the Bellvue section of “Disturbing The Peace.” Emily Grimes, in “The Easter Parade,” says: “…do you know a funny thing? Through Yates I ‘met’ zhiv (have a look at his writings on Yates at zhiv.wordpress.com – really good and fresh to the subject which provides new insights and brave assertions, plus he is American, and I’m not, and has an ability to make links that I struggle to make). She never wanted to be pregnant, she never wanted this life. It was never going to work and go smoothly even if she wasn’t past the all-important date. She doesn’t wanted to bring another child to that family, to that reality. She wanted to live, and to get away from her husband. i viewed it as — when they sit down to have that final breakfast, Kate gives Frank one final chance to be truthful. Redemption in Yates? She felt no attachment to her life. April never got past her immaturity and self-centeredness. I felt the story was insinuating this was the case in many marriages, given the final scene with Howard tuning out his Wife’s chatter and staring off into the distance. If she survived she would be in a position to move on with her life. To make him relinquish The kit she uses is actually for douching. I am sure that if Frank had decided to have the baby in Paris she would have been happy with that decision. April goes to the wastebasket and takes out crumpled letters she tried to write Frank the night before. She was aware of the consequences of a late abortion, she phoned Millie (was too upset to say goodbye to her kids) she left a note to Frank. She was hoping that she would have the freedom to finally live, even if she wasn’t sure just how to accomplish that. I haven't seen the movie Revolutionary Road so I can't answer the part about how she specifically dies. In 2008, at the time of its release, the abortion scene in Revolutionary Road created some controversy. She knew the date for a ‘safe’ termination was well past. You promise yourself you will never be her. That’s all that matters, and it builds through the story and shows her intent at the end. & what you’ve justified in the reply surely confirms otherwise(abt the futility). I just finished watching the movie for the second or third time, but I haven’t read the book. Frank also rubbished her ability as a Mother and told her the baby, that she kept for him, wasn’t wanted. Kate waits for Frank to leave, so she can carry out her plan. ( Log Out /  Thanks XD ! Can you watch a whole movie without looking at your phone? She prepares a farewell breakfast (or is it invested with the hope that a new beginning is about to start? No clear right answer, but lots of different perspectives and opinions. My wrting is not as eloquent or complete as the others. What’s tragic is that she realizes this about herself too late. However, I'm sure that it's pretty much the same as the woman in the movie Vera Drake. Then her desperate attempts to hide the truth, the pink elephant in the room & she’s talking about the weather, the lovely “picture window” etc.. the movie was great (sad) but i think the acting was really well done. For those who are overly sympathetic with April, I suspect you have never had children. Sure Frank was excited at first, but then the realities of life smacked him in the face. Nothing within him whispers These papers were written primarily by students and provide critical analysis of Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates. But the debate that must’ve gone through her mind, is what i’m speculating on.. Let’s say she really wanted the morning to be good for them, she wanted a good life for frank n her, but she wasnt able to bring herself to do it.. It’s like what we’re made of & what we want.. That’s what makes April weak and selfish because if it couldn’t be Paris, then it could be nothing. So she is able to be sweet and interested in his work etc . Thanks for you blog and all the posters, helping me to clarify this for myself. He’s not such a man, however, and certainly not serious about work in any real sense (except that of material and ostensible success). I suppose he wants us to know she could never have succeeded but she was willing to take that risk. I believe April knew SOMETHING had to change. Still have questions? You say she futilely tries to say what she needs to – and I realise you don’t mean that in the literal sense – but where do you find that attempt? I think it’s clear that there’s something wrong with April. I believe she also mourns the loss of her baby before she acts upon her decision. No. More than the primeval law: hey i just saw the movie ..very late . Lots to think about here and sorry for the slow response but I have been away. It’s as if April is acting out a dangerous wives’ tale, and thus the book both begins and ends with a performance. He lives because life lasts. 2nd part - because of the law back then, making it illegal to have an abortion, April (kate) had to use a back-alley way to have an abortion which would usually end in the death of the mother because of the unsafe and unsanitary way in which she had an abortion (because of the tube) she more than likely tried to pull the baby out but didn't succeed or died as a result of this. My opinion is suicide. I can’t see it. Or is it out of just plain outrage at her speaking like that, that he cant listen to her, so he tunes it out? Great idea for a post. She cries when talking to Milly–she knows she’s not going to see her kids again. But, I do concur that she was both trying to abort the baby and commit suicide. 0 0. - an issue challenged particularly by the prospect of April's first abortion. He’s a man looking for a calm place to settle down, she’s looking for a constant change.. So she decided to convince herself and him that the leave to Paris was for Frank. This precaution of looking up the hospital number beforehand as well as the act of ringing the hospital suggest that she wanted to survive. Risk-averse, conservative, obsessed with what the neighbours think,house- proud to the point of dementedness,with no emotional honesty at all – a polar opposite to April – easily capable of driving her son nuts – . *Movie spoiler* If its okay, I really want to bring up something thats been bothering me alot about the final endings to the *movie*. Revolutionary Road plays with all of the above: abortion is a major plot point, the climax, and manipulated to the greatest effect, while simultaneously inviting, then repelling you from the woman herself. Please read on! Change ), You are commenting using your Google account. 5 years ago. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one: People don’t live on thinking that if they’re sure nothing’s gonna change, then it may not be worth living, though they can, knowing that they will, until they break, but at the same time convinced that they surely wont…It’s like living a paradox… We have to presume it was her call – there was no one else there. Pity him who is happy! The film follows Frank (DiCaprio) and April Wheeler (Winslet), … Now, what you may well ask: perhaps I will try to turn it into a book. (and potentially Millie or her kids from discovering her cold bloody body, not to mention the unborn child)..or was it a last minute wave of regret, that she wanted to undo what she had done? We are discussing Yates after all. And yet we have Yates’s objective correlative to help position us here: ‘The cigarette broke and shredded in her fingers’. She seemed in trouble the morning she decided to abort. I cant believe what she was saying after she treated that couple like family for all those years, and I dont understand why she was saying it. Learn the important quotes in Revolutionary Road and the chapters they're from, including why they're important and what they mean in the context of the book. 1st part - take a guess. So where would she put the tube? Apologies, first, for being unwittingly “forceful,” or harsh. Usually jealousy is the motive .However, these people depend & survive on having people to “cover” for them, so they’re very careful who gets to “peek behind the curtain”… they think of themselves as brilliant, above and smarter than everyone else. I think Mendes saw her like that too but I’m not sure and I can really only talk about the book. She aborted or killed herself (also) because she had sex with the other guy while bearing the baby she ejected along with her life out of herself. I particularly like the way you question the phone call: ‘The sad part for me was she knew she was going to die…why did she phone the ambulance? (and potentially Millie or her kids from discovering her cold bloody body, not to mention the unborn child)..or was it a last minute wave of regret, that she wanted to undo what she had done? After watching this movie a few times I can finally see April’s demise as a very desperate, human, albeit selfish thing to do. I was having trouble coming up with April’s motivation for the self-inflicted abortion, so I did a web search and came up with your blog. Well, my journey towards my first goal is all but over; having handed in my thesis in February and had my Viva in May (in the UK everyone has to have a Viva), and having passed, I will graduate in July. I’m reminded somewhat of Sylvia Plath. I think she was living on a high with the Paris dream, she wanted to get away (didn’t have to be Paris, could have been anywhere) and might have even looked forward to having the baby in a new home new “Way of Life” away from the stifling housewives suburban cage….when the realisation that nothing would change, that if they moved it would be to another bigger better suburban area, that she would fall in and out of love with Frank, that she would remain so desperately unhappy…she couldn’t face up to living like that any more. But upon reading this site and thinking about the argument the afternoon before and her mental state, and the ultimate morning breakfast and new found interest/love for her husband to throw him off the scent, and the telephone call to the kids; after watching the breakfast scene, my two thoughts were, “She’s either going to perform the abortion or kill herself.”. I think that the better view is that April did not intend to die although she knew that giving herself an abortion after the ‘safe’ date had passed carried a high risk of death. I wouldn’t want to deal with the circumstances portrayed here. I have just watched this movie and even though it is 6 years later after what Aruna Says … I felt so compelled to write my disagreement with her. I can understand Shep not wanting to talk about the Wheelers after her death, since he was secretly in love with her- What I cant get over though, is the ending with Kathy Bates and her husband. So even she herself can’t tell if it is a suicide or an accident…though most of our interpretations would be inclined either way because of the very same reason…. Beyond these i think the focus on the ‘tidy house/ tidy death’ by Zedra is not really credible and ashley needs to have a think to her/ his self given the degree of sympathy exhibited for April’s selfish perspectives. The film, to my mind, should have had the camera pull back after that shot of him turning off his aid, and should have included the image of her still talking and petting their dog (or was it a cat?) Women took abortion decisions into their hands in the days before it became legal, and April performs a DIY abortion which leads to devastating consequences. What else could she do? It’s much more nuanced and more interesting to get Yates’s narrative rather than someone else’s interpretation of that narrative. It really would have been a Martha and George situation. When she saw that it was not possible because her husband betrayed her, their plan. April tells Frank she’s having an abortion for him (and because she doesn’t want anymore children), but he tells her “the thought of it makes [his] stomach turn.” The couple cancels their dream move to Paris to remain in their … So does the neighbour with whom she had sex in car. She already left him the night before in the woods. I believe her plan is to abort the baby and then leave Frank. I've seen this film 2 times now and i can't seem to draw a conclusion to WHY she gave herself that abortion that ultimately killed her! Many people see this as a gentle form of redemption as she accepts, finally, the love and support of family and, by implication, Christianity. Or rather, of course, he means for April to have it. She has resigned herself to “whatever happens” afterwards. Only to the select few they “target”, and the Wheelers were a target. She no longer wanted to or could live a life of lies. And I don’t think Kate’s character would abort and hope to, or as a means to, die. By the end she realizes that she has been chasing a mirage all along (and lying to Frank and to herself) and that Frank was never and could never be the man she thought or hoped he would be. She didn’t love her husband. I’m adding a plea here since this is easily the post most often read. Salvation via family or any means other than the temporary alcoholic blackouts? John made a devastating but poignant statement on the way out of the Wheeler’s house “I’m glad I’m not gonna be that kid” (last sentence of chapter 5). She is signalling compliance and acceptance with her shy smile; we know neither is true but she doesn’t want him to know because she wants to prevent inquiry. “Pity him who lives at home So she consoles herself telling herself what is real yet not being able to agree with it.. When she starts up her tyraid about the Wheelers, he knows what’s really going on (she has done this many times before! Very bad idea…, I havent read the book, but I watched the movie. April’s options run out so she has to take this horrendous risk. There is a similar ambiguity at the end of The Easter Parade when Emily enters her nephew’s house. She didn’t want to die. Revolutionary Road essays are academic essays for citation. From the start we gather that she wanted relevance. (Dr. Scott Peck wrote about it- “The People of the Lie” Fascinating read. Additionally her note to Frank said ‘whatever happens don’t blame yourself’ which seems to leave open the possibility that she might survive. Posted on 20 December, 2012 by Shweta Krishnan. Also, did Frank give April enough support when she told him she was pregnant? Thank you for the reply kate.. Yup I don’t mean it in the literal sense. They are full of blame and hate. You can sign in to vote the answer. It’s exactly what Alice says it is, unintentional self-destruction. it is about which way it should go & is going, forever(always the present)…Hope at every corner. A calculated suicide. So the author leaves us with a similar sense of frustration as Frank felt. I doubt she meant to kill herself . I abdicate any hard stance of a position one way or the other. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Now a new friend joins us for direct and honest discussion – just as it should be and forceful is fine. It left me thinking anyway……. Since your argument is solely based on the movie I’m afraid it’s irrelevant. I will be reading the book as soon as I can get my hands on it… I have a world of down time as I am a recovering leukemia patient after bone marrow transplant…have alot of time on my hands, which I suppose beats the alternative, ‘eh?? In the woods she makes her final decision, and at breakfast she is resolved and calm , knowing what she must choose. Happy with his life, Superficial Values in Revolutionary Road; A Continuous Metaphor: Theater in Revolutionary Road Yes, powerful, tragic, bold and uncompromising but what happens? This is the last breakfast. I couldn’t help but sympathize with her. Portrayed with brutal and heartbreaking clarity, the couple represents the lavish desolation of American suburbia. In the beginning she was clearly devastated by her poor performance and all her dreams dashed, yet Frank acts in a very disrespectful and patronising manner. The person is pretty much dead anyway. Todd. She didn’t even want to be touched by him. Essays for Revolutionary Road. - Revolutionary Road Having just seen the widely praised "Revolutionary Road", I am still trying to work out all the reasons why I detest it so much. I won’t publish your responses unless you want me to. Quotes from Richard Yates's Revolutionary Road. He seemed to pounce on her for not telling him sooner. The ending infuriated me, btw. He’s unwilling to give her peace at critical moments. It was made clear that Frank felt like she did it on purpose knowing she would die. Can I get an opinion here? As DeWitt says, who would she have been had she lived? I agree with much of what you say except for one major thing. The implication of this might extend beyond the Givingses and suggest that all men and all women remain very separate in marriage. She arranges everything in neatly on her dressing table. And if I sounded harsh, it’s because I want people to get it right and not over-think and, as so often happens in that case, under-understand (not you, Kate, but you’re in an academic setting, you know it happens). 'Revolutionary Road,' considered the original anti-suburban novel, isn't actually anti-suburbs—but something far more devastating than that.The … In Revolutionary Road, abortion doesn't only kill Winslet's character, it also causes conflict in her personal life. This continues and she clutches onto the one dream she feels they share in order to regain a connection with her Husband. I know that sounds harsh but I’m not interested in the movie version at all: it’s an interpretation of Yates’ work. But how can we know if it was suicide or not? A messy, bloody home would not do that. If she had chosen something obvious, like slitting her wrists, it would have been a somewhat more hurtful and shameful legacy to leave behind. I’m still musing on all of this and want to contrast Frank’s conviction initially that, ‘She did it to herself, Shep. It makes me feel that maybe, what she did wasnt what she set out to do…, & by the way the funny thing about debates is if either party speaks with conviction, thinking he/she is right, & What he really cares about most is his image – but he lacks the awareness or courage to even suspect this is what fuels a lot of his tirades and attacks on April. was it to save Frank? April did not intend to commit suicide, however she was prepared for the possibility that she might die. But then she became pregnant, he had a chance of a promotion and he realized that the reality of their life was not going to be Paris. She knew she didn’t love him anymore and did want to move any farther down the road with him. Yates clearly conveys this in the novel. That’s what makes Frank strong and brave. I don’t know if I fully agree with the idea that she was a selfish person..well maybe to an extent, but if she was ruthlessly selfish she could easily not have told Frank about the pregnancy and simply dealt with it herself while he was away at work. No way did she commit suicide. She is aborting her dreams of Paris, accepting her rooted fate of a conventional existence. Yates was a subtle, elegant writer–he deserves the same qualities in his readers. She is aware though that she has no options and the tragedy of Yates’s characters is that they often battle for ‘truth’ until all options run out. The Wheelers rocked her boat. im confused though (If you haven't seen it please don't read on, it will spoil it) when she gives herself the abortion at the end, how in hell does she do it? April realised “…that if you wanted to do something absolutely honest, something true, it always turned out to be a thing that had to be done alone.”. 2) Who is the crazy one? Kate is not afraid of the hopeless emptiness. – I don’t think so) and she takes a poignant interest in his dull job to throw him completely off the scent. Their absence from the story is telling). It starts there. Surely the reason Frank thinks that ‘No morning after a fight had been as easy as this’ is because that is exactly what she wants him to think. I think I agree with every word of this: both possibilities are tantalisingly left open. The protagonist is always his own worst enemy–s/he smokes and drinks and makes ill-considered decisions and doesn’t take care of self, but suicidal? April did not try to kill herself. Frank chickens out and then rationalises his cowardice and blames April for his failings. Winslet shows that she is the greatest actress of her generation in her portrayal of April Wheeler. Your thoughts would help but I suspect Yates intended that we could never decide. Her real significance however is as a kind of concretised monstrous example of what happens if the prejudices prescribed by society are venerated scrupulously . She certainly failed as a mother (if not a human being), truly failing much more the older children she had than the one she would not allow to be. The price she pays is the ultimate – her own head. These people are VERY dangerous, very good at what they do, and what they do best is lie. She’d literally rather die than start over as a new mother. In a way he’s substituting this for Anna Karenina throwing herself on the train tracks. Since he gives her no room for a healthy self, her self becomes ingrown and warped, and transparent to him, which she likely understands at some level is her only way of living with him. to conclude, I believe that it wasn’t suicide. Such a depressing movie. The one on both agreed but Frank decided to jumped off when he saw money ahead and praise. So she did it knowing she might die, and I agree that she just took a risk knowing the consequences. When April discovers she’s pregnant—the development that derails her new dreams—she performs an abortion on herself. Utterly bleak. She has projected herself onto him. People live on thinking that if there’s a way, irrespective of what the signs are, the way will come, someday… That’s what life’s about. I think it will be clearer to you if you read the book as will the very ending which I don’t think Mendes got quite right. Whatever happens please don’t blame yourself.”. Dear Frank, I’m afraid only Yates’ words are pertinent to this discussion. She felt trapped and overwhelmed by a empty life. ( Log Out /  Maybe. If she died her problems were over! I just watched it about 2 hours ago, and I cant get it out of my head. April aborted the baby because she is selfish. Movies Section: IYO, What is the best 2000s Sports movie of all time? April’s motivation was simply to assert some of the control over her own life she feels she was missing, and tragically, she died. I remember that the guy from the mental asylum told her that he feels most sorry for the baby and it had a strong effect on her. Kathy Bates may be narcissistic. I’m going to have to lean toward suicide, and I think that all of the points about reservations and “unintentionally self-destructive,” as Alice mentions, work against her rather forceful statement. A young couple living in a Connecticut suburb during the mid-1950s struggle to come to terms with their personal problems while trying to raise their two children. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site. Revolutionary Road critically examines how the intersection of personal mental health and the society in which you live can have disastrous consequences when the balance is off-kilter. Frank himself is not a bad guy, but he doesn’t know how to handle April well. what did she do how was this meant to give you an abortion. So that’s that. Superficial Values in Revolutionary Road; A Continuous Metaphor: Theater in Revolutionary Road If abortion had been legal, April would not have resorted to desperate measures, and therefore she may have survived. Kate Winslett is so emotional, she deserved the grammy oscar trophy she is great. Yes I think maybe it was partly what you call the ’emotional pain’ he felt for the Wheelers that means he doesn’t want to hear his wife bad-mouthing them but also I think Yates suggests that the only way that Howard Givings can live with his wife is to live by creating his own little world that she cannot disturb. April was very depressed and grasping at ways in which to restore what they once had, but with what they had now gone and the responsibility of 3 children she had no way out. She weighed her options, after hearing her kids play outside called them as a precaution, went upstairs, took her chances and unfortunately she not only aborted the baby but killed herself. Opposition to abortions has increasingly turned physical and even violent, first in the organized blocking of access to clinics which provided abortion services, organized primarily by Operation Rescue, founded in 1984 and led by Randall Terry. When April ran off into the woods I could really relate to how she felt, she wanted away from the lonely, hollow pain inside but her body wasn’t her own. She had tried to write until five in the morning, then had given up and taken a long hot bath. But then, of course, there are her phone calls…why be so very upset when calling Milly if she didn’t think she was going to die? The child must die alongside the dream of escape! What movie is it where the child drowns and the ghost comes back to live again at the end of the movie . Revolutionary Road Based on the book of the same name, Revolutionary Road depicts an abortion scene that might shock viewers. The one crazy enough to risk financial safety to pursue one’s dream (even if it may turn out to be just a mirage) or the one who accepts a lifeless status quo? You feel for her, you loather her, you are glad you are not her. I’m glad there are people like you giving the work serious consideration. Yes, she was willing to risk life and death, as DeWitt says, and as you say, Alice, it would be the stupidest of plans. She killed herself.’ (p.320) with his later musing on the event as it might have happened. This is where you come in. Thanks for your comment. Whereas April can never get over it and spirals into another deeper depression ( not helped by her unwanted pregnancy) she suffers a sense of hopelessness which she cannot accept. 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