The Coen brothers use the American culture’s view on many things to makes points in their films. The exaggeration of stereotypes, accents, and landscapes are used to show the audience the flaws of our culture as a whole. Although theses aspects are not usually the focus of their movies they certainly play a role in what the film has to offer. In Burn After Reading one of the main characters Linda Litzke played by Francis McDorman is obsessive about getting plastic surgery. This obsession is what leads her to hold valuable information at ransom for money. Although her plastic surgery is not the main plot of the film, it shows how obsessive our society has become about “beauty”.