Revolutionary Road | Teaching Key Figures

Character Descriptions

This section provides a short description of all the major characters in the book. This can be printed out as a study guide for students, used as a "key" for leading a class discussion, or you can jump to the quiz/homework section to find worksheets that incorporate these descriptions into a variety of question formats.

Characters

April Wheeler - This character is a tall, blonde, aloof twenty-nine-year-old wife. Blessed and cursed with an artistic nature, she puts her years of study at a drama school in New York City to use in a community theater production that is a flop.

Frank Wheeler - This character is just as unrooted in his own life as his wife is in hers. He works at a job in New York City that he hates, commuting on the train from their Connecticut home.

Shep Campbell - This character is a red-haired engineer who,...
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