“American Beauty” 1. Impression Management Impression management is a way to get people to see you any way you want them to. To achieve this one would wear a certain type of clothes, for example, to give off a certain impression. It is all about image, and managing the impression you give off. If you were at work in a nice office, most people would be wearing nicer clothes, such as suits to give an appearance …showed first 75 words of 3689 total…

…showed last 75 words of 3689 total…who he once was. Lester went out and bought his dream car, worked at a fast food restaurant, and lusted after a teenage girl, this helped him to relive the good in his past. Chance never had and identity and had to deal with the repercussions of that. Lester and Chance were facing different struggles to have an identity, but the two of them had to face the problems of not having their own identity.