Revolutionary Road Page #4

Now, you...

Just wait here till I call you. Okay?

Okay.

Alright Frank!

You can come in now!

"Happy Birthday to you."

"Happy Birthday to you."

"Happy Birthday dear Daddy."

"Happy Birthday to you."

Happy Birthday, Darling.

I love you, daddy.

I love you too.

Frank.

Frank.

I have had the most wonderful idea.

Ive been thinking about it all day.

Baby, whats all this about?

You know how much money

we have saved...?

Enough to live on for six months

without you earning another dime.

And with the money we could get from

the house and the car, longer than that.

What we get for the house...

Sweetheart, what are you talking about?

Where are we going to live?

Paris.

What?

You always said

it was the only place

youd ever been,

that you wanna to go back to.

The only place that was worth living.

So why dont we go there?

Youre serious?

Yes.

Whats stopping us?

Whats stopping us?

Well, I can think of a number

of different things.

For example, what kind of a job

could I possibly get?

You wont be getting any kind of job,

because I will.

Oh, right.

Right.

Dont laugh at me.

Listen to me.

Do you know what they pay

for secretarial positions in the

government agencies in Europe?

No. I don't.

Listen Frank, Im serious about this.

- Do you think Im kidding or something?

- Okay.

I just have a couple of questions,

is all.

For one thing,

what exactly am I supposed to be doing

while youre out earning all this money?

Dont you see,

thats the whole idea?

Youll be doing what you shouldve been

allowed to do seven years ago.

Youll have time.

For the first time in your life

youll have time to find out

what it is that you actually want to do,

and when you figure it out,

youll have the time and the freedom...

to start doing it.

Sweetheart,

its just not very realistic, is all.

No, Frank.

This is what's unrealistic.

Its unrealistic for a man with

a fine mind to go on working

year after year at a job he cant stand,

coming home to a place he cant stand,

to a wife whos equally unable

to stand the same things.

You want to know the worst part?

Our whole existence here is based

on this great premise,

that were... special...

and superior to the whole thing.

But we're not.

Were just like everyone else.

Look at us! Weve bought into

the same ridiculous delusion.

This idea that you have to

resign from life

and settle down

the moment you have children.

And weve been punishing

each other for it.

Listen,

we decided to move out here.

No one ever forced me to

take the job at Knox.

I mean who ever said I was supposed

to be a big deal, anyway?

When I first met you...

there was nothing in the world

you couldnt do or be.

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