Submitted by Louis-Jack on February 15, 2008

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Revolutionary Road

Choose one Yates/Carver story and explore it in depth drawing attention to the links that can be usefully established with Revolutionary Road and any other American texts you have read. Try to identify and contextualise how the story reflects key themes in 20th Century American fiction.



The B.A.R. Man, a short story by Richard Yates, was written around the same time as the author’s most famous novel Revolutionary Road. The two tales contain a number of clear parallels and similar themes that result largely from the context within which they were created. I will identify and discuss some of these links in Yates’ writing whilst looking at the state of the...

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