Through this examination of Lester's life, rebirth and death, American Beauty satirizes American middle class notions of meaning, beauty and satisfaction.
The film has been described by academics as a satire of American middle class notions of beauty and personal satisfaction; analysis has focused on the film's explorations of romantic and paternal love, sexuality, beauty, materialism, self-liberation, and redemption.
You wonder: Is traveling on the QM2 really an upper-class thing to do, or is it a middle-class notion of an upper thing to do?
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Her strong build, partly a result of the hard physical labour that was her livelihood, ran counter to the largely middle-class notion that women were meant to be physically frail.
As the century wore on, the contradiction between the conditions on the ground for children of the poor and the middle-class notion of childhood as a time of innocence led to the first campaigns for the imposition of legal protection for children.
Essex girls, who turn middle-class notions of distinction on their heads, are anti-celebrities".
Ms. Ehrenreich describes trying to take notes with a pen, being told she can't use one in the museum and thinking privately that she dislikes Monets for their "middle-class notions of coziness," but doesn't "hate them enough to stab them with my felt-tip pen".
In particular, traditional male working-class notions of masculinity meant that male grief was denied rather than shared and faced.
And suddenly a staple of civics class — the notion of checks and balances between different branches of government — is the talk of the Capitol.
