american beauty

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However, in the case of the neighborhood that American Beauty takes place in, people wear success like a badge or a medal. He wants people to know what happens at the end of the movie. The jobs that Ricky supposedly holds he uses to pull in front of his father’s eyes. Bob Dylan once said “A man is successful if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do. Lester learns that it is ok to do whatever he wants to do when he wants to do it. When Ricky returns from his hiatus from society, he realizes that to live freely he must create a façade too and use it against his father. He puts up the façade of a man’s man. When people come to look at the house, they see the ugliness on the inside and are turned away from Carolyn and from buying the house. She can lie about the external part of the house, but it is the internal that people truly find ugly about both Carolyn and her real estate. Ricky leaves his catering job instantly to share a joint with Lester. He hides his sexual preference in what seems like a perfect 1950’s nuclear family. One can only imagine if he is trying to tell his son something, but his denial of speech does not allow anyone to know what he was going to say. He dictates his house like a commander runs a battalion.

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