How is Lester Burnham represented?

In the film 'American Beauty', Lester Burnham is represented as being shy, nervous, awkward, and being dominated by his wife.
The use of colour/costume is been cleverly choosen to show the audience how we should see Lester. The use of the colours, Green, Brown, Black and Blue are seen alot during the first minutes of the film, when Lester is first introduced to the audience.
Lester's costume is very buisness like, which shows the audience first off that he takes pride in how he looks. Mainly from the influence from his wife. Lester is always dressed in work wear, this shows the audience that he doesn't have a lot of time to relax/ doesn't feel relaxed within himself or in his own home.
Lester Burnhams home life is womanly domanated. He is domanted by his wife. You can see this from the way the house is designed; it has a major feminine influence.
The audience can also tell that Lester is dominated by his wife in the scene where the family are sat down to dinner. The table is set in a very womanly fashion.With flowers, candles, and fine china. Mrs Burnham is sat as the head of the table, which shows that she has a hold over Lester.
Lester doesn't get control of anything in the house and that is evident throughout the film; Another situation where the lack of control is evident, is in the first car scene. Lester is sat in the back seat, in a slouched postion and seems asthough he is falling asleep. While his wife is driving the family to work and school.
Lester is represented as being very socially awkward. This is shown to the audience, in the school scene. Where Lester trips over, he reverts to being a teenager in a teenage setting. When this scene is shown it makes the audience think that this is what Lester would have been like at school and when he was growing up. The scene gives us an overview of what his teenage life would have been like. 
Lester burnhams work life is a lot like his personal like there is no defined seperation between them- Lester has been working the same mundane job for the last 14 years. At work Lester is represented as being 'boxed in' that is a lot like his home life. At home Lester feels boxed in and unable to break out of his routine (box). We also get the sence of boredom. This links to the music we hear throughout the film.
The music is mainly piano/elevator music, This style of music is monotonus and suggests that his life is a lot like that.
Throughout American Beauty, Lester Burnham is the voice over/narrator. This creates sympathy from the audience towards Lester; And finally a high angle is used in the bedroom scene. This shows a sense of Lester again being over powered. As the angle of the camera is positioned to be looking down on him from a hight. To give the audience the sense that they are looking down on him like everyone else does.