Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet in Revolutionary Road
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AQA (A) Literature: AS module ‘The Struggle for Identity in Modern Literature’; A2 module ‘Love through the Ages’
Richard Yates wastes no time in alerting the reader of his novel Revolutionary Road to one of its major themes — the agonising tension between action and inaction. The novel, structured like a play of three acts, opens with April Wheeler’s failure to act with any conviction in the local community’s amateur dramatic production of The Petrified Forest, with its connotations of woodenness, stunted growth and fear.
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