A Textual Analysis Of American Beauty : The Dinner Scene.
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David Thomas 12Mh - Film Studies, Ms.Draude A Textual Analysis Of American Beauty : The Dinner Scene American Beauty is a story of American suburbia, showing how easily the happy façade of American life washes off and how fatally flawed the American dream really is. At the beginning of the film Lester seems happy in a fairly good job with a nice family, however this is not true, Lester hates his job, although it is well paid he has realised he no longer has any promotion opportunities in his current job and he does not like the work he is doing. Indeed later in the film he quits his job and blackmails his boss before getting a job in a fast food restaurant. In this job he is trying to go back to "the good old days" of his childhood, as it were, these repressed feelings of boredom with his life and...


