Part 3: Chapter 9 Summary

In the aftermath of April's death, Millie Campbell recounts numerous times the final resolution of the Wheeler family: the fact that their children moved in with Frank's brother and wife in Pittsfield while Frank lived in New York City and worked for the new firm of Bart Pollack Associates, a computer spinoff from Knox Business Machines, and saw his children on weekends. Millie recalls how nervous she was at the closing of the sale of the house of Revolutionary Road to another young couple named Brace, and how everything worked out fine with Frank's pleasant demeanor. Hearing his wife rattle on yet another time about the Wheelers to the Braces, Shep Campbell leaves his living room, heads for the kitchen and makes himself a stiff drink, snarling and cursing under his breath about how Frank had been turned into pleasant, empty...