Lester Burnham in American Beauty

Lester Burnham and his wife Carolyn maintain a loveless marriage in which their resentment and hostility toward distri thoively other is fed by the lies and secrets they maintain. Their teenage daughter is estrange from them both. Lester discerns Carolyn as pretentious. Carolyn believes she is capable of being a major real-estate success, but she is allow foring to lie to her husband and keep secrets to get earlier in her career. She has an affair with a successful real-estate mogul, hoping that success will rub off on her. She maintains blinders against negative aspects of reality, maintaining a dictatorial outlook on life and a harsh fodder that are based on material possessions and selfish emotions. She changes conduct when a commercial about starving children is aired, to instead view emotions in a fabricated romance. Lester tells her the expensive sofa she cherishes is "just a couch," but she explains it is more than a couch for i

t is a "four honey oil dollar sofa upholstered in Italian silk" (Mendes, 1999).

Lester also maintains lies and secrets. He secretly harbors lust for his daughter's teenage friend.

When he overhears her say she would residuum with him if he lost weight and was in shape, he begins to booby grass in the garage and workout in the hopes of bed her down. Lester blackmails his boss at work, winning a lucrative course of instruction's cost of severance pay, which he intends to use to take a year off and find himself. Ironically, despite the lies and secrets of his life that have make him "feel like [he's] been in a coma for the quondam(prenominal) twenty years," Lester will lose his life to his mentally dotty neighbor who thinks he is having an affair with his son (Mendes, 1999). Because of the lies and secrets they maintain in their hostility and resentment toward each other, Lester and Carolyn also lose some(prenominal) relationship with their daughter, who takes off with her neighbor whose fa
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