revolutionary road
two nights ago i finished the book, that the new movie with Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio is based on… basically any semi-educated, slightly progressive and/or social critic’s terrifying nightmare of a future. the characters repeatedly settle for convenience’s sake, while attempting to maintain the self-preserving pretensions at bohemian intellectualism (to which they blatanly fail).
directly after reaching the conclusion to this tragic and dismal novel, i opened my email only to discover that i had been rejected from teach for america. this lead me to predict some equally tragic and dismal life courses for myself. and also, a few side thoughts:
a) for reals?
b) who gets rejected from teach for america anyway?
(my inner critic tells me that this is maybe the snotty attitude that got me rejected in the first place.)
after sobbing on the phone to my mother (poor woman. i also happened to have had a few glasses of wine and felt the most boozey i had since the cleanse, which most likely did not help), my bruised ego recovered today when i was invited for an interview for austin teaching fellows (which is the program that i was actually more interested in). so in the end, all is well, but
CONCLUSION: revolutionary road = my worst nightmare, but an excelent book (by Richard Yates, originally published in 1961).
