A Literary Approach to Road to Perdition Road to Perdition Formalism

In Depression-era Chicago, hit-man Michael Sullivan is known to friends and enemies alike as the Angel of Death. Uncompromising in his work, Sullivan is just as devoted to his private life as an upstanding husband and father of two young boys. But when those worlds collide, taking the lives of his wife and younger son, Sullivan and his surviving son, Michael Jr., leave their sedate home life behind and embark on a startling journey of revenge. In order to truly understand the nearly unsurpassed precedent of Sam Mendes' Road to Perdition, one must analyze the standard literary textual eleme…