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The paper discusses how the ideas of marriage in the movie "American Beauty" are perhaps right in that both people act selfishly, and undermine traditionalist beliefs of marriage in our American culture. The paper describes how both Lester and Carolyn Burnham go through quite a bit as a couple, and Fossett's beliefs deconstruct the relationship.

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"Sam Mendes' film "American Beauty" explores the power dynamic and rationalist turns of marriage explained in Charles Stephen Fossett III's "Marriage Brokers and Heartbrokers". The film itself exposes the underlying problems of the Burnham family, an upper middle class white household that seems "perfect" in terms of how society measures perfection: high-paying jobs, an affluent household, an unbroken marriage. Still, not all is what it seems in the Burnham's perfect life: Lester Burnham quits his job and becomes a model of impulsivity, passivity, and unapologetic depression."

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