American Beauty Character Analysis
Everyone knows the Golden Rule: Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. But is this necessarily always true? Apparently not to Kevin Spacey as he played the role of Lester Burnham in the 1999 film American Beauty. His rule was "When you've got nothing to lose, you might as well risk everything".
Lester Burnham and his wife, Carolyn, portray a perfect lifestyle to the naked eye. Everyone sees Lester as a man with a perfect high-paying job and a perfect family that lives in a perfect neighborhood. But things are most certainly not what they appear. Lester hates his life. He is hated by his wife, Carolyn, and only daughter, Jane. Lester views himself as a failure to life. He has nothing that he desires. His day consists of a long day at work, a pointless ‘family' dinner with the two people he hate him the most, and then ends with heartless personal attacks by his daughter or wife and the miserable feeling knowing he is going to wake......

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Title: American Beauty Character Analysis
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