How is Lester Burnham represented?

How is Lester Burnham represented?

Lester Burnham is a 42 year old male with a wife and a daughter. He works in sales whilst his wife works in real estate. From the outside they seem like a normal happy family.
The mise-en-scene of his work shows him trapped; he has a box for an office, on his computer screen it shows lists of numbers, this shows him in trapped in what work he does. After 14 years working there he is still in the same office that he was in when he started working there. This shows that he has no ambition. His house shows nothing about him; it shows his controlling wife and what she is, feminine. He has no power in the house and this also is shown in the scenes in the car. In the car he sits in the back, whilst his wife and daughter sit in the front. This shows that the women rule the household and that he must do as they wish. He is shown to be quite lazy as he falls asleep whilst his wife drives the car and drops him off at work and their daughter at school. When he goes to the school to see his daughter at a game, he instantly goes back to his teenage years. He trips over and looks awkward and embarrassed, and then starts fantasising about his daughters cheerleading school friend. It is him as a teenager all over again.
The camera angles also tell a lot about him. The birds eye view shot or the high angle shot shows how even when he is alone we, as a viewer are dominating over him. Here you can also see all of his emotions on his face; it makes him vulnerable whilst being filmed in this way. The mid-shot is shown in context, it shows his torso and head and it is the shot that we can read off his behaviour and actions as well as his emotions of embarrassment and awkwardness.
Lester Burnham is the narrator to this story. This means that the film is slightly biased towards him, and creates sympathy towards him. Apart from the dialogue of the other characters there is also music. The music is soft, gentle, piano music; it is elevator music, so it is very monotonous. This music also shows him, as he is monotonous and boring like the music.
Although, at a first glance Lester Burnham is an ordinary man with a wife and daughter; looking at the mise-en-scene, camera angles and sound Lester Burnham is shown in a very different light of a boring, monotonous and depressed middle aged man.