amily seems to love him when they are out in public or if friends and neighbors are present. In reality, the father was a very confused man. He did not know what to do with his life. Over the years, he tried to plant in his head that he had a successful marriage, where in reality it was falling apart. His daughter at her teenage years did not have any type of relationship with her father. The father’s worst problem was that he had a crush on one of his daughter’s friend and was not afraid to show it. The father’s problems began to come to surface when his job started to lay off some of their employees. Lester then got the first hint that not everything in his life was perfect; he had some issues in his life that he had to deal with. The father for years had acted as if he was a happy man and that he was happy with his family. However, on the reality side the father was nowhere near being happy with his life or his life style. He did not have any sexual contact with his wife, so to make up for it, he would masturbate in the shower and think that that was the best part of his day. Lester never told his wife about how he felt, and she finally found out when she caught him in the act while she was sleeping beside him. Lester also tried to make his life better by trying to make up for lost time that he had wasted being unhappy. He decided that he was going to relive his younger ages and decided to work at a fast food restaurant and to start smoking marijuana, hoping that it will fulfill his lost time.In American Beauty the mother, Carolyn Burnham (Annette Bening) is also very unhappy with her life. She walks around and shows everyone that she is a very successful real estate woman and that she is just so happy with her life. In reality, she is frustrated with the way that she lives. She thinks that she should be more successful with her career but she feels like she will never get past Buddy Kane, who is kno...
