The Burnham family is not very functional when we find them in the start of the film. They seem to all come very close to hating each other and only tolerate each other because they have to. They are the trophy family. The mother despises her husband, even considers him a loser. The father despises the mother for being so controlling, shallow, and untruthful with herself and others. Their daughter, whose emotions bubble quietly and sear viciously; is an adolescent struggli

ng between wanting to love her parents and seeing their blemishes in stark relief, as only an offspring can. "I need a father who's a role model," says Jane, "not some horny geek boy who's gonna spray his shorts whenever I bring a girlfriend home from school. What a lame-o."

Lester was completely lost in his person but through the process of trying to find himself, meeting a very confident young man, smoking pot, and reassessing himself as the man of the house, has found his gratefulness and is no longer an unhappy man. While Lester is going through this process, he discovers a girl whom he looks upon as the perfect representation, in his mind, of beauty. She helps motivate him into getting his life back together and finding himself and what he stands for. Ultimately, Lester's end comes at his moment of redemption, and it resonates with quiet irony. His liberation becomes his undoing, but not before he has emerged as the kindest, most stouthearted person in a confused lot of misdirected souls.

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