American Beauty: Lester and the Character Arc
American Beauty is one-hundred and twenty two minute piece about a family, consisting of a teenage daughter with self-perception issues, a middle-aged wife that has an inferiority complex and a middle-aged husband with an extreme mid-life crisis. Most men that go through these "times" in their life normally buy a sports car (usually a convertible one that's in a bright color and extremely small, like one of those circus clown cars) and cheat on their wife (usually with a secretary or some other co-worker slightly younger than the wife). …
