Little Miss Sunshine Stereotypes

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The popular concept of the “American dream” is normally portrayed as having economic capital, a convenient house and a “ordinary” family. However, is this fantasy really achievable? Little Miss Sunshine faces and destroys these stereotypes by presenting a dysfunctional American family composed by a workaholic father, an “unusual” type of mother, a drug-addicted grandfather, a suicidal oncle, a depressed son and a little girl who wants to win a beauty pageant despite the fact that she does not resemble a Barbie doll. Each of these characters represent possible cultural agents of society, each of them trying to accomplish their personal “American dream”. Therefore, this paper will analyze different stereotypes in relation with this hegemonic

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