The End of the Good Life: Literary Representations of Suburbia and the American Nightmare

Conventional literary and filmic representations of the American suburbs depict a space that is either middle-class idyll or claustrophobic vacuum.By engaging with Patio Umbrellas suburban gothic literature, this article interrogates such portrayals and Outdoor Dining Chair (Set of 2) deconstructs the utopian conception of suburbia.I argue that, rather than representing the "good life", the suburbs in these texts are sites of deeply-rooted cultural anxieties.