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Presentation by Sophie Coss Author Bio Richard Yates Early life Born 1926 in New York Unstable childhood parents divorced when he was 3 constant moving Mother suffered from alcoholism and mental illness ID: 811745

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Eleven Kinds of Loneliness, by Richard Yates

Presentation by Sophie

Coss

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Author Bio: Richard Yates

Early life

Born 1926 in New York

Unstable childhood: parents divorced when he was 3, constant movingMother suffered from alcoholism and mental illnessWorld War IIServed in France and Germany -- Didn’t see much combat, contracted tuberculosisWriting CareerRevolutionary Road in 1961, Eleven Kinds of Loneliness in 1962None of his work sold well at all despite it all receiving critical acclaim. Worked as a professor of creative writing at various universitiesWork would only become popular after his deathLater Years and DeathSmoking addiction, alcoholism, tuberculosis, severe mental illnessDied in 1962 from emphysema

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Revolutionary Road (1961)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qADM67ZgYxM

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Eleven Kinds of Loneliness (1962)

Eleven short stories

All stories about loneliness, dissatisfaction, isolation

Every story set in New York in the 1950sPoint of View: 3rd person omniscientShifts between omniscience and being closer to an individual character’s perspectiveEmotional distance – never inside their heads, have to glean their thoughts and feelings from action and dialogueDialogue: some characters speak with slang and heavy New York accentsUsed to distinguish between socioeconomic classesEmotions are masked by mild and straightforward language, sentence structure, and diction

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“The Best of Everything” Summary

The story takes place the weekend before two young people - Grace and Ralph – are married.

Grace and Ralph are quite different – although she comes from a background like Ralph’s, she is of a higher socioeconomic status than he is

Grace expresses worry that she barely even knows RalphRalph expresses worry that he won’t be able to have as much fun or spend as much time with “the boys”At the end of the story, they meet and speak for a little bit – there is clearly a disconnect in their dialogue. Neither is paying attention to or has any interest in what the other is saying

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“The Best of Everything” Analysis

Perspective switches

Final line of the story: “She smiled tiredly and opened the door for him. ‘Don’t worry, Ralph,’ she said. ‘I’ll be there’” (508)

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“The B.A.R. Man” Summary

John Fallon, A World War II veteran now living a suburban life grows increasingly frustrated and dissatisfied with his life throughout the day

After an argument with his wife, he slips off his wedding ring and goes downtown with two young army men he has just met, and they dance with three women at a club

The woman John is dancing with – Marie – clearly doesn’t like him, and he only grows more frustrated and refuses to stop trying to get herWhen he leaves to go get the group more beer, he finds out they ditched him and he walks the streets aimlessly until he ultimately releases all of his anger on a stranger in the streets

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“the B.A.R. Man” Analysis

“That was when John Fallon’s patience ran out” (578)

“Fallon’s eyes narrowed and his lips curled tight” (578)

“Fallon’s eyes were angry slits as he crammed the pencil and envelope back into his coat” (579)“’How come you quit those exercises?’ he asked [his wife]” (581)“’Bitch,’ he was whispering. ‘Bitch. Bitch.’ And the images that tortured him now, while he stood in line at the makeshift bar, were intensified by rage: there would be struggling limbs and torn clothes in the taxi…Oh, he’s loosen her up! He’d loosen her up!’” (586)“He saw [the man’s] face recoil in wet-mouthed terror on the sidewalk, and the last thing he knew, as the cop’s blue arm swung high over his head, was a sense of absolute fulfillment and relief” (589)

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“Out with the Old” Summary

Long-term patients in a tuberculosis ward struggle to reconcile who they are in the ward with their former lives outside of the ward that have continued on without them

The story contains scenes in the ward and scenes from when two of the main characters – Tiny and Mac – go home to their separate home for the holidays

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“Out With the Old” Analysis

“…they did not think of it as home or even as life, exactly, but as a timeless limbo between spells of what, like prisoners, they called ‘the outside’” (610)

“Nobody called him Tiny there-–he was Harold, a gentle son, a quiet hero to many round-eyed children, and a rare and honored visitor” (614)

“All over Building Seven men wandered in search of hands to shake; under the noise of shouts and radios the words were repeated again and again: ‘ Good luck t’ya…’ ‘Hope you make it this year, boy…” (625)

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Works Cited

“Yates in 1960.”

Wikipedia.org

, 29 Dec. 2018, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/

Richard_Yates

_(novelist).

“Bookseller Image.”

Abebooks.com

, 2019,

www.abebooks.com/Revolutionary-Road-YATES-Richard-DeltaSeymour-Lawrence/2570704422/bd

“Revolutionary Road.”