se this Realtor is her standard of success. Both Lester and Ricciscam their way to get what they needed. Ricci lied and said he had a bike when he reallydidnt at that moment. It was at the pawn shop. Lester blackmailed his boss for a yearssalary. Then he told his family what he did. What makes both of these incidences specialis that in a time of crises one family, Riccis, pulled through to help him. While Lesters satback and mocked him and did nothing to help him out of his rut. To sum it all up Ricci throughout his search encounters indifference to humanityand incivility of others.4 Ricci fights within himself to be the better person but only endsup in internal conflict with himself. He loses his respect for himself and we are astonishedby his indecency toward other people of Riccis same impoverished disposition. On theother hand American Beauty dabbles with the question how uncivil and inhuman cansomeone lower themselves to over a short period of time. But Lester proves us wrong. His obsession with Angela in the end turns into an act of humanism and civility towardssomeone who is naive. Both of these main characters traits, at some point in everyoneslife, have delivered or even taught a lesson about refraining from some sort of action thatcould end up in consequences that are defiant against ones own code of conduct orsomeone elses....
