“A new life in the Spring.” This is the dream that Jim Holbrook pursues throughout Yonnondio. However, the American dream is nothing but a nightmare for Jim Holbrook. The pursuit of this illusion promises equal opportunity and happiness for all. However, Jim obtains only frustration and sorrow that result in violent outbursts against his family and primitive acts of sexual aggression against his wife. In American Beauty, Lester Burnham has a midlife crisis after spending years caught up in the “American Nightmare.” He confesses that his only comforts are his daily secretive episodes of masturbation “where he fantasizes about a life that doesn’t so closely resemble hell.” He also expresses that his only hope of “salvation” for his acts of corporate whoredom would be to “begin firebombing.” Lester Burnham and Jim Holbrook are both victims of “the American Nightmare."
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While Jim is caught up in the “American Nightmare,” he experiences extreme feelings of powerlessness.
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