Good School
About This Novel
The representative work of Richard Yates, "the writer among writers", "the great writer in the age of anxiety" and the author of "Revolutionary Road". The "Good School" of the title is a fictional Connecticut preparatory high school. The story takes place in the early 1940s. Boys in a "good school" must join the army immediately after graduation. Teachers have mixed feelings about their profession and the school they attend. Although this is a school, as one teacher in the book said, it "contains huge potential energy". This is true for students and teachers. In some ways, this book continues a theme explored in Revolutionary Road: the fragility of marriage. The husband is disabled, the wife is cheating on her, the husband wants to commit suicide, but he is unable to do so. The "good school" in the title is undoubtedly the biggest irony of the entire book, and it makes people sigh after reading it. This book is one of the few works written by Richard Yates that is gentle and full of compassion. The protagonist's growth background and experience in the novel also overlap with Yates himself. The sad and restrained emotions in it are very attractive.
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