Finished We 4/13/22
After the yearly meeting with Dax. I streamed the movie on Pluto TV a couple of days after I finished the novel. Great book and a terrific adaptation; with Leonardo DiCaprio, Michael Shannon, Kathy Bates, and Kate Winslet.
It deals with a couple who seem to be disillusioned by the choices offered to adults just after WWII. Not everyone wants to head to the suburbs and start families. The Wheelers are looking for a little more.
Frank and April got involved in a local community theater production, but the play is a bust. This 'failure' begins to reveal cracks in their marriage and April decides that they should move to France and join the bohemians.
Frank decides to quit the job he hates. His father worked for the same company.
Then April becomes pregnant and their plans of Europe (and their marriage) crumbles.
Subplot: Mrs. Givens, their realtor, her husband and their son John. He is on leave from a mental institution and is the only one who seems to support their decision to split to the continent.
April gives herself a self-induced abortion and dies. Frank moves away.
A link to the book at Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutionary_Road
I should read more novels by Richard Yates.
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