1. Symbolism in "American Beauty"
... crisis, and when he is killed, he calmly narrates, "I guess I could be pretty pissed off about what happened to me, but it's hard to stay mad when there's so much beauty in the world. Sometimes I feel like I'm seeing it all at once, and it's too much. My heart fills up like a balloon that's about to burst, and then I remember to relax, and stop ... that he is going to die, he finally starts to realize all the things he had taken for granted while living; mainly beauty. He doesn't mean beauty in the normal sense of the word, he means the beauty that is in everything all around us "everyt...
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