Revolutionary Road

It’s Monday. On his way to work, Frank remembers the first time he ever saw the Knox building when his dad took him there as a kid. His father worked for Knox Business Machines as a salesman. The day did not go well, even though Frank got to go to a baseball game and a restaurant. His dad had hoped for a promotion but didn’t get it. Now, Frank works there as a sales manager. He remembers when he got the job. April was pregnant and he needed work to support her and the new baby. It was supposed to be temporary, and for a long time, he viewed the job as a joke, but those times are gone. Frank goes to his cubicle and is melancholy about the amount of work sitting on his desk. He thinks about Maureen Grube. She is a secretary in the office, and they kissed at the office Christmas party last year. Frank devises a plan to ask her out to lunch. He gets her to pull many files for him, avoids the normal group of guys he goes with, and when the office empties for lunch, asks her to accompany him. She happily agrees.