 Based on the reviewer's description of Carolyn, a viewer might assume that she values all of the following EXCEPT:
Apparently, Lester doesn't realize that snipped roses are garden-variety symbols of castration, or he'd know what he has lost. The movie is convinced, too--which is odd, since the fantasy of an underage cheerleader making a middle-aged man's wilted roses bloom is a tad ... primitive. It feels lustrously hip and aware, and a lot of critics are making big claims for it. A real-estate broker who fails to sell a big house (her only potential customers are blank-faced African-Americans, Indian-Americans, and surly lesbians), she wears a mask of perky efficiency and insists on listening to Muzak while she and her husband and daughter eat her "nutritious yet savory" dinners.
 social awareness
 social awareness  career success  whiteness  heterosexuality