Revolutionary Road读后感精选

《Revolutionary Road》是一本由Richard Yates著作，Vintage出版的PAPERBACK图书，本书定价：65.00元，页数：480，特精心收集的读后感，希望对大家能有帮助。

《Revolutionary Road》读后感(一)：葛大爷看了肯定作痛心疾首状：“残酷！太残酷！”

如果文艺青年也需要电击疗法，那么这本书可算得上是一本示范性的劳改教材，标题就叫《滚！没糖吃！》

当你那“富有创见”的脑袋被电得白纸一张，捧着教材涕泪横流的时候，说不定隔壁牢房的小清新还会递给你一日系田园碎花小手绢儿，安慰说：“亲～ C'est la vie~”

哦是的是的，这就是生活。空想派假想狂得治，但不能靠否定和打压，就得让他们怀揣梦想一起飞。意识到其实问题不在于生活与社会，问题就在于他自己，这并不是一个“早晚总有那么一天”的问题，而自始至终是“我是谁我是干嘛的”问题。

April的问题，巴黎不能帮她解决，甚至只可能把她往深渊里推得更万劫不复。

而如果——她遇见的是Shep而不是Frank，她结了婚但没有那么快就生孩子还连着生俩..............................我还是无法太过冷酷地说“这也不会把结局导向另一个方向”。

现实残酷，自恋是一种世纪病。还是让我们着手想想培训机构的新方向，标语就叫“如何让你的神经大条、大条、更大条！！！”

关于标题请自行想象葛优葛大爷的种种银幕经典口吻。

《Revolutionary Road》读后感(二)：字字看来皆打脸，走投无路太寻常

（主要是与Young Hearts Crying的比较）

《革命之路》作为成名作，情节有较大的起伏，巧妙地穿插交代了几个主要人物的成长经历，场景转换流畅自然，没有一丝累赘。

而准确朴素的语言，善于通过对话来表现人物性格等技巧，作为Yates的长项，在本书中已经相当成熟。

但《革命之路》仍然是一部略显生涩的作品，对Yates这种在作品中处处找到作者生活的影子的作家，可以看出这个时候Yates也并没有完全成熟，依然带着幻想和天真。

他这个时候应该仍是心理分析的支持者，虽然通过弗兰克和Givings 太太的视角表现了他对心理医生的不信任，对wheeler夫妇，campel夫妇和givings太太来说，家庭环境和父母的关系，直接决定了他们现在的性格和关系模式。在他们的生活中，处处可以找到他们父母关系模式的重现。一两个人这样还可以接受，四五个主要角色都是如此设置，未免无聊。唯一个叛逆者，疯了的数学家John，倒是跟家庭背景完全相反，他的价值观几乎完全通过对话体现，这些对话虽然一针见血，但是略显单薄，即使是精神病人也是复杂多层次的，Yates你这个时候还没进精神病院，自然缺乏丰富有力的细节。

相比之下，Young Hearts Crying 的主题之一虽说也是家庭，但作者已经不再通过生搬硬套佛洛依德理论来塑造人物，那些看起来前篇一律的，受过良好教育，心怀理想的美国人，后期的Yates只需展示给我们几个侧面，就足以让我们偷窥到他们的郁结的心事，和未酬的理想。

作者一向对女性抱有深刻同情和偏爱，但本书中的April未免太过理想化，集中了所有美好的品质，虽然对她不知丈夫挣钱辛苦一心满足自己文艺梦这一点也有所抱怨，但下手明显不够狠。好在这样的毛病，在之后的小说中已经不存在了。Young Hearts Crying中的Lucy出身豪门，无需为钱担心，如April一样一心想通过艺术践行生活意义，但心中迷茫，做出了不少荒唐又无奈的事，令人不喜欢却又很不起来，于是读者没法不把这些角色带入到自己身上。

关于对艺术的见解，可以明显看出此时作者还相信通过艺术是唯一值得去践行的生活方式，April已惨死，巴黎梦未灭。后期就完全不同了，《革命之路》大获成功后，Yates的其他作品依然不受欢迎。他继续追问如果Wheeler夫妇去了巴黎，在不被儿女金钱所累的条件下，他们会不会过上真正想过的生活，他的答案并不乐观。对于Lucy来说，才华有限是致命伤，当由于自身条件限制，无论如何也没办法成为真正的艺术家，生活没法真正有意义的时候，她和作为心比天高的文艺青年的读者，绝望悲哀可想而知。Yates的坦诚无情而细腻，答案令人丧气，推理令人无可反驳，怪不得书卖不出去。

Yates一辈子都失意，但他从来不因生活的痛苦潦倒而放弃过这种坦诚。他一败涂地，连“作品的胜利”都不算，他唯一做成的就是坚持下去，然后死了。这就够了。

《Revolutionary Road》读后感(三)：别说你到不了巴黎

记得当初读完这本书我好久没缓过来，这对年轻的夫妻以及他们永远到不了的巴黎，都让我深深地难过。我在想为什么现实的力量如此可怕，让人猝不及防、束手无策，毫无反抗之力。

是时代的错，是大环境的错。一定是！

我当时是这么以为的。

后来我才发现，真正可悲的不是现实有多么残酷，而是那句“I love you when you are good”。

这句话是多么地致命。

April从小缺乏父母的爱，因此也不可能具备完整的爱的能力。她能够对Frank说“I love you when you are good”，并且认为理所当然；后来她一手操刀的流产，也是潜意识中无法给予爱的体现。

Frank从小在父亲的阴影中成长，认为权力和成就是获得尊重的唯一道路。有一句话“the world is his chosen field”，用来形容他不被固定的条条条框框束缚——其实他根本不知道自己要什么——对父亲的敬畏让他对稳定的工作和完满的家庭有一种无解的情结，不管是不是他真正想要的。

对于这样的两个人来说，巴黎只能是到不了的。

在厌倦与争吵后，两个人达成共识要到巴黎寻找激情和梦想，而在这个节骨眼上Frank得到了晋升的机会。大好前途当前，加上还算安逸的生活以及公司里的小情妇，他当然不想走了。因为the world is his chosen field，not Paris，not April。要说有什么真正能左右他的人生，那就是像神一样高高在上又不可侵犯的父亲的控制力。

而April偏偏在这个时候又怀孕了，加上丈夫的迟疑和背叛，她决心在安全期过后自行流产。因为“I love you when you are good”，所以当腹中的孩子成为她追梦的牵绊时，她那从小缺乏爱的烙印就显现了出来——她始终没有获得爱的能力，所以无法为丈夫及孩子做出必要的牺牲。

他们自以为是与众不同的年轻人、有理想的人、受够了中产阶级乏味生活的人、看透了虚伪、不甘于平庸的人。他们有逃离的觉悟，却缺乏执行的勇气。

如果他们不是这样的人呢？

如果Frank不那么在乎所谓的前途，如果April可以爱身边的人多一点，如果他们都能真心地为对方的幸福着想，那么或许在孩子生下以后——甚至没等孩子生出来，他们就可以启程去巴黎了。

永远没有好的时代、没有宽裕的大环境，也没有合适的时机。悲剧往往是人一手酿成的。巴黎永远在那儿，不是到不了，而是你不具备动身的能力。

《Revolutionary Road》读后感(四)：[Review] Revolutionary Road

I did not finish the book when first reading it. It was last winter, and Michigan’s winter has always been depressing for me. I simply can’t stand the depression feeling the book conveys: that our hopes that tomorrow will be better may be just as ridiculous as April and Frank’s plan to France.

I read some books about passion and desire: Strickland’s passion to painting, Oscar Wilde’s passion to his lover, Anna’s passion to Vronsky, and of course Levin’s passion to marriage and family life. Passion can be so strong that we could lose our sensibility and reasoning in front of it. Instead of saying that I feel April and Frank’s passion depressing, I would rather say that I am afraid of my own passion, and yeah, I know exactly how it feels.

Why am I afraid of my passion then？

When I learned the Book of James, I only remember two messages: 1) Faith without deeds can’t save us; 2) “But the rich should take pride in their humiliation—since they will pass away like a wild flower. For the sun rises with scorching heat and withers the plant; its blossom falls and its beauty is destroyed”. Passion passes away, and then we are left with “hopeless emptiness”.

Leo Tolstoy made a similar comment in Anna Karenina: "He soon felt that the fulfillment of his desires gave him only one grain of the mountain of happiness he had expected. This fulfillment showed him the eternal error men make in imagining that their happiness depends on the realization of their desires."

So, in summary, passion can’t bring us fulfillment even we tend to think “only if I get this/only if I get to that stage of life then my life will be perfect”. It won’t.

Above is how I feel when I was reading the part before April and Frank met John Givings. The conversation they had in their back yard was interesting. John Givings is a psyco and it seems that he like April and Frank a lot. But from there, I see the merit from passion: people who pursue passion fervently are those ones who are true to themselves and to others. So when April said calmly “No. Because shocks must be awful and becuase it’s awful for anybody to forget something they want to remember. As a matter of fact I think mathmatics must be very dull.” I start to like her.

In the end, the story becomes breathlessly depressing again when the bubble broke. You see, April knew all the bubbles she had: she knew that her Dad did not love her, she knew of her illusion that next stage she might figure it all out, but so what？ It’s still a life she doesn’t like, and she does not know what could possibly change. I don’t know either. Maybe that’s why this book is very depressing to read.

《Revolutionary Road》读后感(五)：人艰不拆

With the quote “Alas! When passion is both meek and wild! ” by John Keats, begins the novel, Revolutionary Road. First Published in 1961, Richard Yates’ first ever novel became his best work. The slow disintegration of a marriage in the Connecticut suburbs could easily be a bore considering that so many similar stories have been told already. However, Yates’ psychological analyses of the characters bring me deep into their heads and lead me to a better understanding of their motives and their sides of the story. The poignant deｓｃｒｉｐｔions of the scenes from the quotidian life definitely add to the pleasure of reading this brilliant writer.

During an interview in 1972, Yates explained the subtext of the novel: “I think I meant it more as an indictment of American life in the 1950s. Because during the Fifties there was a general lust for conformity all over this country, by no means only in the suburbs—a kind of blind, desperate clinging to safety and security at any price.”

Conformity, though Yates asserted that it was a problem from the 1950s, is actually the commonest and arguably the easiest way of living. The decline of religion and the surging of personal freedom are the identifiable culprits of our loss of sense of purpose in the disorienting modern life. Hence we witness the ascendancy of the French existentialism. The celebrated founder of the existentialism, Jean Paul Sartre says that we are condemned to be free and it all depends on ourselves to create meaning for our lives. Every choice we make and every action we take would define who we are and determine the meaning of our lives. I have miraculously subscribed to this school of thought since my college years. Then I read somewhere that obsession with existentialism is kinda a side effect of being in one’s twenties, kinda a phase, that is. It makes sense. Fresh out of school, twentysomethings have to go through a transitional stage where they are floundering about in the real world on their own. It’s just that some people’s transitional stage lasts longer than others, some forever. Confronted with a confusing, chaotic situation, most would conform to what the majority believes in, understandably. We should probably refrain from calling them mindless followers, because we all know that every single one of us is doing the best that they can to live in this world. Who are we to judge their choices？

The tension between the genders and their conventional responsibilities in both the private and the social settings, the blurred and threatened concept of masculinity, the tiresome suburban existence are also focal points of this riveting novel. I am not sure if the author was being intentionally misogynistic because the women in this otherwise brilliant novel were portrayed unbearably shallow and frivolous. The book does pay undue attention to the supposed female beauty under the dominating male gaze. Here’s the link of some ruminations of the socalled “first rate girl”, a phrase appeared very early in the novel: http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/a-first-rate-girl-the-problem-of-female-beauty

You might be tempted to have a taste of the novel. Here is a list of quotes: https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/1235136-revolutionary-road？page=1